ABSTRACT
Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|108 pages
The Writer and his Setting
chapter 1|35 pages
Biographical background
chapter 2|67 pages
Cultural background
part Two|82 pages
The Art of Conrad
chapter 3|3 pages
Conrad on his art
chapter 4|5 pages
The pressure towards paradox
chapter 5|3 pages
The covert plot: three examples
chapter 6|18 pages
Textual commentaries
chapter 7|36 pages
Nostromo
chapter 8|8 pages
Heroes, heroines, gender and feminism
chapter 9|7 pages
Conrad's place in literary history
part Three|16 pages
Reference Section
