Conrad's Reading

Space, Time, Networks

AvHelen Chambers

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representations of reading, illuminates his childhood, maritime and later shore-based reading.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-25
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:341 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Book History
Antal sidor:245
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030095000

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Helen Chambers is an Honorary Associate in English at The Open University, UK. As well as specialist medical qualifications she has a recent (2014) PhD in Literature and has published on Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. Based in France, she is a member of the History of the Book and Reading Research Collaboration (HOBAR) at the Open University and an active contributor and editor for the Reading Experience Database (UKRED).

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“With Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks, Helen Chambers makes a very valuable contribution to this field. … Chambers paints an interesting, rich, and variegated picture of Conrad’s reading. … Richly researched, Conrad’s Reading will not only be of interest to Conrad scholars.” (Wim Van Mierlo, Library & Information History, Vol. 35 (1), 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

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.