TY - BOOK AU - Simmons,Allan TI - Joseph Conrad in context SN - 9780521887922 (hbk.) : AV - PR6005.O4 Z7518 2009 U1 - 823.912 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Conrad, Joseph, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index; Pt. I. Life and works -- Life / J.H. Stape -- Chronology of composition and publication / Katherine Isobel Baxter -- Language / Mary Morzinski ; Veronique Pauly -- Letters / Gene M. Moore -- Literary influences / Owen Knowles -- Biographies and memoirs / David Miller -- Portraits and illustrations / J.H. Stape -- Pt. II. Critical fortunes -- Critical responses : contemporary / Allan H. Simmons -- Critical responses : 1925-1950 / Owen Knowles -- Critical responses : 1950-1975 / Richard Niland -- Critical responses : 1975-2000 / Andrew Purssell -- Dramatic and other adaptations / Richard J. Hand -- Translations / Mario Curreli -- Pt. III. Historical and cultural context -- Africa / Allan H. Simmons -- Anarchism / M.S. Newton -- Disease and medicine / Martin Bock -- Eastern Europe / Addison Bross -- The Far East / J.H. Stape -- Fin de siècle / Laurence Davies -- The First World War / Richard Niland -- Intellectual movements / Richard Niland -- Literary movements / Robert Hampson -- Modernism / Michael Levenson -- Nationalism and empire / Allan H. Simmons -- Politics / Allan H. Simmons -- Popular culture / Stephen Donovan -- Publishing / Aaron Zacks -- Reading / Linda Dryden -- Religion / John Lester -- Science and technology / Matthew Rubery -- Sea / Robert Foulke -- Society / Amar Acheraïou ER -