Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews 4 Volume Hardback Set

Four volumes of reviews of Conrad's works in chronological order; an invaluable record of the author's reception in his lifetime.

Allan H. Simmons (Edited by), John G. Peters (Edited by), J. H. Stape (Edited by)

9781107022058, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 26 April 2012

2600 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.2 x 14.2 x 15.1 cm, 3.76 kg

'Complementing the superb Cambridge editions of [Conrad's] works and letters, this collection of Anglophone reviews of his works is a very welcome addition to the long-term commitment that Cambridge University Press has made to Conrad studies. It is a great credit to CUP that it has made possible a formidable body of finely researched and authoritative editions. Ideally read alongside his essays and letters, these volumes complement the work that [the Press] has already published on Conrad in recent decades. They should appeal to Conrad scholars and general readers alike.' Anthony Fothergill, Review 19 (nbol-19.org)

An indispensable resource both to Conrad specialists and to students of literary Modernism, this four-volume collection seeks to provide as complete as possible a view of the contemporary reception of the writer's works in the English-speaking world. The reviews cover all of Conrad's writings from Almayer's Folly (1895) to the posthumously published Last Essays (1926). The volumes also take into their purview the collaborations with Ford Madox Ford. Found here are evaluations by journalists as well as by creative writers, the latter including H. G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Walter de la Mare and Virginia Woolf. The volumes offer insights into early twentieth-century reviewing practices, the marketing of 'literary' fiction and the wide interest in such writing, as reviews of Conrad's work regularly appeared in provincial and colonial newspapers.

Volume I: Almayer's Folly to Youth edited by Allan H. Simmons
Volume II: Typhoon to Under Western Eyes edited by John G. Peters
Volume III: A Personal Record to The Arrow of Gold edited by Richard Niland
Volume IV: The Rescue to Last Essays edited by Mary Burgoyne and Katherine Isobel Baxter.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: general [DSB]