Joseph Conrad (original) (raw)

Conrad by William Rothenstein.]

Biographical Materials

• Biographical Essay
• Some Verbal Portraits of Conrad
• Chronology
• Blackwood as Conrad’s Publisher

Works

• Works
• The Initial Publication Context of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Religion

• Conrad on the indifferent creation in which “the last vestiges of faith, hope, charity, and even of reason itself, seem ready to perish”
• H. L. Menken on Conrads’s dark humor
• “Human life is a seeking without a finding”: H. L. Mencken on Conrads’s philosophy of life
• Conrad and Classical Imagery in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
• Religion in England

Politics

• Conrad’s Bloody Imperialism: Achebe, Said, and what Conrad really wrote
• The British Empire
• White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
• Why blow up the Greenwich Observatory? (The Secret Agent)

Literary Relations

• [Review of] Joseph Conrad's Contemporary Reviews, 4 Volumes
• “what I read on the evening before I began to write myself” (Conrad's early reading of English fiction)
• Bleak House, Madame Delestang, and Lady Dedlock
• Conrad on Rousseau and the autobiographical elements of fiction
• An abiding affection for that energetic, slight, fragile, intensely living and transient figure” — Conrad on Stephen Crane
• Introduction: Comparing Imagery in Conrad and Hardy
• Aesthetes and Decadents
• Mid- and late-Victorian Fiction

Artistic Relations

• Muirhead Bone's Conrad listening to music, 1923

The Cultural Context

• Victorianism

Last modified 26 September 2018