Conrad's Reading Space, Time, Networks /

• Main Author: Chambers, Helen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Book History
• Subjects: Books-History.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Civilization-History.; History of the Book.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Cultural History.

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representatio...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. 'Books are an integral part of one's life: evaluating the evidence of Conrad's reading
• 3. 'Read by chance on the Indian Ocean': reconstructing Conrad's maritime reading
• 4. 'A book, not bemused by the cleverness of the day': Marlow as a reader
• 5. 'A Conrad archipelago replete with islands': Edwardian reading communities
• 6. 'Gifted with tenderness and intelligence': Conrad's reading women
• 7. Conclusion. .