This is a collection of difficult-to-find and typically early commentary on Conrad’s life and works. The selections contained shed light on Conrad’s life and works, as well as the way in which his works were promoted to the public. Selections include those by the American novelist Christopher Morley and the Irish novelist Liam O’Flaherty. Also included is a previously unpublished essay by Conrad’s friend Richard Curle. Of particular interest are the promotional materials, which are collected together for the first time and reveal how Conrad was perceived by the general reading public and how he was marketed by his publishers.
“The possibility of this book ten or eleven years ago would have seemed a van Marlean dream. The fact it joins a burgeoning “Conrad Studies” series overseen by Simmons and J. H. Slape and published by Rodopi is magnificent. […] an essential addition to any college or university library. I am delighted to have it on my shelf, and am happier still to know now its use and validity to any reader mad enough to explore stuff about Conrad for longer than an hour and a half.”
- David Miller,
The Conrad Society, 2009.
“No one would gainsay the importance of this work without undermining in Conrad’s scholarship the relevance of these short essays and tributes. Peters illuminates them further with his rather ebullient editorial notations. He uses footnotes masterfully to clarify and extend the tet, especially by identifying the sources the original writers have used and the inter-textual valences of their arguments.”
- Jude Chudi Okpala,
Joseph Conrad Today XXXV-2, Fall 2010
“Thus, with the amalgamation of various elements – from photographic and cinematic scenarios to thought-provoking arguments concerning Conrad’s theme, style and language, and the publicity through pamphlets – the book becomes a smorgasbord of knowledge about Joseph Conrad.”
- Umme Salma,
Transnational Literature, vol. 4 no 2, May 2012.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Biography Burton RASCOE,
et al.:
New York Greets Joseph Conrad on His First Visit to America Christopher MORLEY:
Conrad and the Reporters Sir Hugh CLIFFORD:
A Talk on Joseph Conrad and His Work Florence DOUBLEDAY: From
Episodes in the Life of a Publisher‘s Wife Édouard RODITI:
Meetings with Conrad James WHITAKER:
Joseph Conrad at Stanford-le-Hope Appreciations
Porter GARNETT: In Memoriam
Joseph Conrad, Obiit
August 3, 1924: The Honour of Labour A Tribute to a Great Seafarer Liam O‘FLAHERTY:
Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation Early Criticism John Cowper POWYS: From
Essays on Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde John Herman RANDALL:
Joseph Conrad: His Outlook on Life G. JEAN-AUBRY: “Introduction” to
Twenty Letters to Joseph Conrad Richard CURLE:
The History of The Nigger of the “Narcissus”: Human, Literary, Bibliographical V. WALPOLE:
Conrad‘s Method: Some Formal Aspects Publicity James HUNEKER, E. F. SAXTON, and Richard CURLE:
Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad – A Prospectus: A Biographical Sketch & A List of His Books Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Joseph Conrad: A Prospectus of the Uniform Edition of Joseph Conrad‘s Works Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronicle Joseph Conrad: The Greatest Living Artist in English Prose Joseph Conrad: A Sketch with a Bibliography A Man Who Sailed the Seven Seas and Wrote His Tales to the Boom of the Distant Surf The New Kent Edition of Joseph Conrad Index