The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521484847 ISBN 13: 9780521484848

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Leading Conrad scholars give an account of Conrad's life, provide detailed readings of his major works, and discuss his narrative techniques, his complex relationship with cultural developments of his time, his influence on later writers and artists, and recent developments in Conrad criticism. The volume, which is aimed at students and the general reader, also contains a chronology and guide to further reading.

About this title

Book Description:

Leading Conrad scholars provide an account of Conrad's life and detailed readings of his major works. They discuss his narrative techniques, complex relationship with cultural developments of his time, influence on later writers and artists, and recent developments in Conrad criticism.

About the Author:

J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521484847
• ISBN 13: 9780521484848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Stape J. H.