Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad by George Charles Beresford [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsDespite this choice, Conrad's assumption of a British identity was complex. Conrad's writing, at least, was never inherently 'English', but is rather littered with figures who cross national borders, de-stabilize accepted identities, and embrace the heterogeneity of global cultures -- all this despite the occasional ideological misgiving that have since provoked accusations of racism and pro-imperialism. Conrad's career in the maritime industry took him across seas to numerous continents, and his travels across a globalized world provided him with a huge reservoir of experience upon which he drew when he turned to his writing career in the second half of his life, from the 1890s until he died in 1924. Conrad's novels, short stories and novellas are set in locations as various as South America, the Belgian Congo, Russia, London, and Singapore, and many never move beyond the deck of the ship upon which his characters are enrolled. However, it is interesting to note that Conrad's two careers, maritime and literary, never really overlapped -- Conrad only started writing after he had…
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| 1 | Modernist Prefaces | Dr Sarah Copland on how Modernist writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad used the form of… | Dennis Duncan, Sarah Copland |
| 2 | Nostromo | ebook version of Nostromo | |
| 3 | Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ | ebook version of Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ | |
| 4 | Lord Jim | ebook version of Lord Jim | |
| 5 | The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story | Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer (Ford Maddox Ford) “Sardanapalus builded seven cities in a day.… | |
| 6 | Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer (Ford Maddox Ford) | |
| 7 | Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim | Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph… | Peter McDonald |
| 8 | Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe | Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph… | Peter McDonald |
| 9 | Colonial Writers - Introduction | The title of the 'Post/Colonial' section of the Great Writers Inspire website is intended to… | Dominic Davies |
| 10 | Heart of Darkness |