Conrad and Women

ISBN-13: 9780198184485 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 264 str.

Susan Jones

Opis

This book challenges the traditional image of Joseph Conrad as writer of the sea, a man in a man's world. It re-establishes the importance of significant women in his life, and his engagement with women's writing. Rethinking received views of Conrad as a modernist writer, it also explores the experimentation of his later, less familiar works, first published in the women's pages of popular journals.

Recenzje

Spirited and scholarly study ... Jones is a discriminating reader, possessing an admirably thorough knowledge not just of Conrad's life and work, but also of the Polish literary scene at the turn of the century. As a writer with an ambitious brief - "to challenge the prevailing image of Conrad and to offer an alternative to its tenacious hold on the critical tradition" - she is further blessed with a light touch ... Jones is particularly dextrous at discussing Conrad's style in the context of phenomenological debate