Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews 4 Volume Hardback Set

by Allan H. Simmons (Editor), John G. Peters (Editor), J. H. Stape (Editor)

Overview

An indispensable resource both to Conrad specialists and to students of literary Modernism, this four-volume collection seeks to provide as complete as possible a view of the contemporary reception of the writer's works in the English-speaking world. The reviews cover all of Conrad's writings from Almayer's Folly (1895) to the posthumously published Last Essays (1926). The volumes also take into their purview the collaborations with Ford Madox Ford. Found here are evaluations by journalists as well as by creative writers, the latter including H. G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Walter de la Mare and Virginia Woolf. The volumes offer insights into early twentieth-century reviewing practices, the marketing of 'literary' fiction and the wide interest in such writing, as reviews of Conrad's work regularly appeared in provincial and colonial newspapers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107022058
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/26/2012
Series:	The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
Pages:	2600
Product dimensions:	5.59(w) x 8.74(h) x 5.94(d)

About the Author

Allan H. Simmons is Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University College, Twickenham.

John G. Peters is Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Table of Contents

Volume I: Almayer's Folly to Youth edited by Allan H. Simmons; Volume II: Typhoon to Under Western Eyes edited by John G. Peters; Volume III: A Personal Record to The Arrow of Gold edited by Richard Niland; Volume IV: The Rescue to Last Essays edited by Mary Burgoyne and Katherine Isobel Baxter.

Editorial Reviews

"Complementing the superb Cambridge editions of [Conrad's] works and letters, this collection of Anglophone reviews of his works is a very welcome addition to the long-term commitment that Cambridge University Press has made to Conrad studies. It is a great credit to CUP that it has made possible a formidable body of finely researched and authoritative editions. Ideally read alongside his essays and letters, these volumes complement the work that [the Press] has already published on Conrad in recent decades. They should appeal to Conrad scholars and general readers alike."
Anthony Fothergill, Review 19 (nbol-19.org)

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