Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.

John G. Peters (Author)

9781107034853, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 April 2013

290 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.6 kg

'John Peters's excellent survey of Conrad criticism from 1895 to 2012 presents a familiar paradigm of writerly success.' Stephen E. Tabachnick, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920

Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories have consistently figured into - and helped to define - the dominant trends in literary criticism. This book is the first to provide a thorough yet accessible overview of Conrad scholarship and criticism spanning the entire history of Conrad studies, from the 1895 publication of his first book, Almayer's Folly, to the present. While tracing the general evolution of the commentary surrounding Conrad's work, John G. Peters's careful analysis also evaluates Conrad's impact on critical trends such as the belles lettres tradition, the New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, narratology, postcolonial studies, gender and women's studies, and ecocriticism. The breadth and scope of Peters's study make this text an essential resource for Conrad scholars and students of English literature and literary criticism.

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Early Conrad commentary
2. Beginnings of modern Conrad commentary
3. Development of modern Conrad commentary
4. Modern Conrad commentary
5. Contemporary Conrad commentary
Afterword: future directions for Conrad commentary
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]