Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and how this reception was crucial to the formation of modernism and American culture more generally. Born in Poland and early displaced thr
Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of
Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owne
Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot MalliosIntroduction by Robert D. KaplanIn reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad’s “surgical insight into the
Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells o
