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OverviewSupported by an enduring critical paradigm, the traditional account of Conrads career privileges his public image as man of the sea, addressing himself to a male audience and male concerns. This book challenges received assumptions by recovering Conrad's relationship to women not only in his life but in his fiction and among his readers. The existing interplay of criticism, biography, and marketing has contributed to a masculinist image associated with a narrow body of modernist texts. Instead, Susan Jones reinstates the female influences arising from his early Polish life and culture; his friendship with the French writer Marguerite Poradowska; his engagement with popular women's writing; and his experimentation with visuality as his later works appear in the visual contexts of womens pages of popular journals. By foregrounding less familiar novels such as Chance (1913) and the neglected Suspense (unfinished and published posthumously, 1925), she emphasises the range and continuity of Conrad's concerns, showing that his later discussions of gender and genre often originate in the period of the great sea tales. Conrad also emerges as an acute reader and critic of popular forms, while his unexpected entry into important contemporary debates about female identity invites us to rethink the nature of his contribution to modernism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Jones (Fellow and Tutor in English, Fellow and Tutor in English, St Hilda's College, Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.441kg ISBN: 9780198184485ISBN 10: 0198184484 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 30 September 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsCarefully researched and far-ranging... [An] ambitious and largely successful reconsideration of [Conrad's] life and work.... Conrad and Women offers much to broaden our perspective on Conrad.... Most importantly, Jones's book helps to open Conrad's writing to the wider audience he himself sought. --English Literature in Transition 1880-1920<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |