1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad
The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad’s works, reception, and legacy.
This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, women’s studies, comparative literature, and other forms of art. They offer approaches as diverse as re-examining Conrad’s sea voyages using newly available digital materials, analyzing his archipelagic narrative techniques, applying Chinese philosophy to Lord Jim, interrogating gendered epistemology in the neglected story “The Tale,” considering Conrad alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, or Orhan Pamuk, or alongside sound, gesture, opera, graphic novels, or contemporary events.
An invaluable resource for students and scholars of Conrad and twentieth-century literature, this groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad’s works – their artistry, vision, and ideas – continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.
Introduction
PART ONE: Conrad and Biography
1 The Sea Voyages Revisited
Helen Chambers
2 Conrad and the Carmelites: “Irreconcilable Differences” in “Amy Foster”
Kim Salmons
3 Modernist Nost/algia in The Mirror of the Sea
Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska
4 Conrad as Character
Nathalie Martinière
PART TWO: Conrad and Narrative
5 “Crumbling Islet[s]”: Joseph Conrad’s Archipelagic Writing
Julie Gay
6 Reading Conrad: The Art of Listening to a Silent Voice
Catherine Delesalle-Nancey
7 The Language of Gesture in Lord Jim and Chance
Susan Jones
8 “The problem is not to be solved”: “Il Conde” as Pensive Text
Maria Luigia Di Nisio
PART THREE: Conrad and Philosophy
9 Reading the Suffering Body: Schopenhauer and Ethics in “Falk”
Jana M. Giles
10 “Enough Marvels and Mysteries as it Is”: Conrad, Aristotle, and Nature
Alexia Hannis
11 The Taiji in Lord Jim and the I Ching
An Ning
12 Conrad and the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry
Debra Romanick Baldwin
PART FOUR: Conrad and Women
13 Unhomely Lives: Martyred Mothers in Conrad’s Fiction
Carola M. Kaplan
14 “Command Me”: Agency and Desire in Conrad’s Women
Joyce Wexler
15 Asian Food, Tropical Forest, and Indigenous Agency in Conrad’s Malay Novels
Pei‑Wen Clio Kao
16 The Man Who Wanted to Share: Gendered Epistemology in Conrad’s “The Tale”
Yael Levin
PART FIVE: Conrad and Other Writers
17 Conrad, Greene, and the Dynamics of Hetero-Biography
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
18 Cannibals in the City: The Urban Gothic Metropolis of The Secret Agent
Ellen Burton Harrington
19 Strolling Through Modernity: The Flâneur in Under Western Eyes and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow
Simla Doğangün
20 Refracting Romance: Optics in Conrad and Woolf
Susan E. Cook
PART SIX: Conrad and Politics
21 Conrad, Du Bois, and the Politics of Modernist Individualism
Zoë L. Henry
22 The Exilic Imagination from Lord Jim to “The Unlighted Coast”
Judith Paltin
23 “Tenderness to all Pain and all Misery”: Conradian Sympathy and the Mentally Disabled
Yumiko Iwashimizu
24 The Resonance of Conrad in Contemporary Europe
Joanna Skolik
PART SEVEN: Conrad and Other Forms of Art
25 “Not a Tale for Children”: Conrad’s Operatic Narratives
Anna Marta Szczepan-Wojnarska
26 Conrad’s Global Graphic Afterlives
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
27 Transmodal Shifts: Revisiting “Amy Foster”
Tania Zulli
28 Depth Sounder: The Acoustics of Conrad’s Subliminal Ethics
Kate Burling
Biography
Debra Romanick Baldwin is Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas, USA.
