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Conrad and Nature: Essays book cover

1st Edition

Conrad and Nature Essays

Edited By Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, John G. Peters Copyright 2019
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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Conrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s writings. Together, these essays by established and emerging scholars reveal both the crucial importance of nature in Conrad’s work, and the vital, ongoing relevance of Conrad’s treatment of the environment in our era of globalization and climate change. No richer subject matter... Read more


1 Conrad, Nature, and Environmental Criticism



LISSA SCHNEIDER-REBOZO AND JEFFREY MATHES MCCARTHY





PART I



Conrad and the Anthropocene



2 Wilderness After Nature: Conrad, Empire, and the Anthropocene



JESSE OAK TAYLOR



3 Conrad in the Anthropocene: Steps to an Ecology of Catastrophe



NIDESH LAWTOO



4 The Monstrous and the Secure: Reading Conrad in the Anthropocene



ROBERT P. MARZEC





PART II



Conrad’s Atmospherics



5 Dirty Weather



TROY BOONE



6 The "Breaking-up" of the Monsoon and Lord Jim’s Atmospherics



BRENDAN KAVANAGH



7 Conrad’s Ecological Performativity: The Scenography of "Nature" from An Outcast of the Islands to Lord Jim



MARK DEGGAN





PART III



Conrad, Ethics, and Ecology



8 Conrad and Nature, 1900 - 1904



HUGH EPSTEIN



9 "A Paradise of Snakes": Conrad’s Ecological Ambivalence



J.A. BERNSTEIN



10 ‘What could his object be?’ Form and Materiality in Conrad’s ‘The Tale’



JARICA LINN WATTS





PART IV



Nature, Empire and Commerce



11 Nostromo and World Ecology



JAY PARKER



12 "He Can’t Throw Any of His Coal-Dust in My Eyes": Adventurers and Entrepreneurs in Victory’s Coal Empire



SAMUEL PERKS



13 Guano, Globalization and Ecosystem Change in Lord Jim



MARK D. LARABEE





PART V



Earlier Commentary



14 From The Challenge of Bewilderment



PAUL ARMSTRONG



15 "Too Beautiful Altogether": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness



JOHANNA M. SMITH



16 From "Beyond Mastery: The Future of Conrad’s Beginnings"



GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM



17 Solidarity in The Nigger of the "Narcissus": The World of Nature



IAN WATT





Notes on Contributors



Index

Biography



    Lissa Schneider-Rebozo is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.





    Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is the Director of Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.





    John G. Peters is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, is past President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America and current General Editor of Conradiana.

    "Joseph Conrad is a corner-stone for understanding modern literature and the human condition, and Conrad and Nature: Essays, both dramatically reshapes our understanding of his work in his contemporary world, and his legacy and importance in ours."

    -- David Mulry, College of Coastal Georgia

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