Prefatory Overview; Introduction; PART I: The Soul of Honor The Franco-Latin Spirit and Conrad's Ethos of Honor; Chapter 1 A Strong Obligation and Spurre Honor as Conrad's Francophile Legacy—Its History, Semantics and Philosophy; Chapter 2 Nothing but Honor Conrad's Honor—the szlachta past and fin de siècle present; Chapter 3 Indeede True Honor & Beaming Brightness France's Cult of Glory, Its Background and Consequences, the Vogue of French Aesthetic Honneur in Nineteenth-Century Life and Literature; PART II Fraudulent Cookery Conrad's Napoléonic Tales; Chapter 4 An Excellent Farce Conrad's Napoléonic Tales—The Dueling Code in Life and Literature; Chapter 5 I Swear It The Tyranny of the Word of Honor; Chapter 6 The Spirit of the Epoch Honor Perverted as a Lethal Ethos in "The Duel"; Chapter 7 Nowhere any honesty on earth Honor Debased in a Cynical Age in Suspense; PART IIIThe Honor to Belong Conrad's szlachta past—themes of nobility, belonging and fidelity; Chapter 8 A Chivalrous Tradition The critical tradition, the szlachta Cultural Legacy and the Quixotic Hero; Chapter 9 The Accent of Heroic Truth Nobility, Belonging and Fidelity in Conrad's Meditational Works and Folk Memory; Chapter 10 The Good Dog Honor's Inherited cultural contexts and their symbolic expression; Chapter 11 Courtly Solemnity Formative Influences on Conrad's Polish Notions of Personal honor; Chapter 12 Without Fear and Without Reproach Conrad's Prince Roman S– as Traditional Ideal of Patriotism as Honor; Chapter 13 Pole, Catholic, Gentleman The Nałęcz Korzeniowski Warrior Tradition and the Honor of Service; Chapter 14 Not Stupid For All That Military Honor and Conrad's Equestrian Tradition; PART IV Basically a Secular Ideal Conrad's Polish and English Ethos of Honor; Chapter 15 Men of Scrupulous Honor Honor and Conrad's Polish, English and Romance Aesthetic; Chapter 16 The Furrow of the Moon A Century's Loss of Honor, Conrad's Humor, and his English Hopes; Chapter 17 An Eminently Proper Thing English Moralists Conrad's adopted Philosophical Tradition of Honor; Chapter 18 Untroubled by Too Much English Honor's "Beastly Bourgeois" Extreme in Alvan Hervey; Chapter 19 The strong hand of Collective Conscience Genuine Honor and its paradigms of Culture and Class; Chapter 20 A Real or Fancied Stain "Karain: A Memory" and the Decline of Honor's Polish Ethos Epilogue Bibliography Index
Biography
GW Stephen Brodsky, CD, DPhil, DLitt, has been a career soldier, a professor of Literature and prodigious author. His books in military literature have included Gentlemen of the Blade, a social and literary history of the British Army; God’s Dodger, The Story of a World War II Frontline Chaplain; The King’s Bishop, the memoir of a corporal in Korean War; and other military literature. A specialist and elder statesman in Conrad studies, he is author of Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul; Intimations of Joseph Conrad; and numerous articles appearing in published in Conradiana, The Conradian, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, The Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), Modern Fiction Studies and Zwischen Ost und West: Joseph Conrad im europäischen Gespräch.
