Joseph Conrad

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Standard Name: Conrad, Joseph
Joseph Conrad 's publishing career spans a little over the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography judges him to be one of the greatest fiction-writers—and probably the greatest political novelist—in English,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
a language which he had learned as a non-native speaker. Female characters in his work are a generally peripheral minority.
Black-and-white, half-length photograph of Joseph Conrad by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1916. Conrad looks up and out of the frame, with smooth hair and trimmed beard and moustache, wearing a jacket and waistcoat, and holding a cigarette.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of...
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
VH was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Olivia Manning
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a hero to OM 's father, and therefore to her as well: her father 's influence on this book can been seen through the presence in it of Rider Haggard
Literary responses Jean Rhys
Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...
Literary responses Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence , a friend of her husband 's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Literary responses Violet Hunt
To varying degrees, critics have valued VH 's recollections of artistic contemporaries more than her style or other aspects of the memoirs. In a brief review in the Nation and Athenæum on 20 March 1926,...
Literary responses Ethel Lilian Voynich
Despite all this success, the novel received negative criticism almost as much as praise.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
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Arnold Kettle shed light on Joseph Conrad 's negative view, which sprang from a perception not out of line with...
Literary responses F. Tennyson Jesse
Joseph Conrad called this book a jewel in a casket.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Literary responses Marjorie Bowen
Although MB was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her...
Literary responses Flora Annie Steel
An early study of FAS 's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan , complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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Violet Powell, who admires...
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
George Moore and Hugh Walpole both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad and Emily Brontë .Again VSW 's mother weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband envisaged for her...
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
The Bookman reviewer admired the book and likened it to Conrad 's Nostromo.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Literary responses Anne Enright
Hermione Lee called this a rich, flamboyant, mannered book, written with condensed, self-conscious stylishness, dazzling with images and sensations and violence, and daring you to resist it from its first outrageous sentence. For her it...
politics L. S. Bevington
In February 15, 1894, French anarchist Martial Bourdin died after he apparently tried to blow up the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park. LSB likely had insider knowledge of this incident (which formed the basis...
Reception Arnold Bennett
This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Bennett was buoyed up by positive reviews from J. B. Priestley , H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy . He was annoyed...

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