Joseph Conrad

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• Biographical Materials
  • Biographical Essay
  • Some Verbal Portraits of Conrad
  • Chronology
• Works
  • The Initial Publication Context of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  • Conrad on the indifferent creation in which “the last vestiges of faith, hope, charity, and even of reason itself, seem ready to perish”
• Literary Relations
  • “what I read on the evening before I began to write myself” (Conrad's early reading of English fiction)
  • Bleak House, Madame Delestang, and Lady Dedlock
  • Conrad on Rousseau and the autobiographical elements of fiction
  • An abiding affection for that energetic, slight, fragile, intensely living and transient figure” — Conrad on Stephen Crane
  • Introduction: Comparing Imagery in Conrad and Hardy
  • Aesthetes and Decadents
  • Mid- and late-Victorian Fiction
• Artistic Relations
  • Portrait Gallery
  • Muirhead Bone's Conrad listening to music, 1923
• The Cultural Context: Victorianism
• Politics
• The British Empire
• Religion and Philosophy
• Conrad and Classical Imagery in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
• White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Genre and Mode

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• Conrad at Literature Post

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Last modified 16 March 2004