Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times
Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion
Author: Allan Conrad Christensen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134237340
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as plague, nursing and the hospital environment and focusing on certain key texts including Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134237340
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as plague, nursing and the hospital environment and focusing on certain key texts including Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520044050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
“Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s.”—New York Times
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520044050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
“Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s.”—New York Times
Essays on Conrad
Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521783873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521783873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.
The Dawn Watch
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594205817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"An exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad [and] his turbulent age of globalization--and our own"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594205817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"An exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad [and] his turbulent age of globalization--and our own"--Provided by publisher.
Conrad and Impressionism
Author: John G. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521791731
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad and links this to his literary techniques as well as his philosophical and political views. He investigates the sources and implications of Conrad's impressionism in order to argue for a consistent link between his literary technique, philosophical presuppositions and socio-political views.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521791731
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad and links this to his literary techniques as well as his philosophical and political views. He investigates the sources and implications of Conrad's impressionism in order to argue for a consistent link between his literary technique, philosophical presuppositions and socio-political views.
Conrad and History
Author: Richard Niland
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191573809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book examines the philosophy of history and the subject of the nation in the literature of Joseph Conrad. It explores the importance of nineteenth-century Polish Romantic philosophy in Conrad's literary development, arguing that the Polish response to Hegelian traditions of historiography in nineteenth-century Europe influenced Conrad's interpretation of history. After investigating Conrad's early career in the context of the philosophy of history, the book analyses Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911) in light of Conrad's writing about Poland and his sustained interest in the subject of national identity. Conrad juxtaposes his belief in an inherited Polish national identity, derived from Herder and Rousseau, with a sceptical questioning of modern nationalism in European and Latin American contexts. Nostromo presents the creation of the modern nation state of Sulaco; The Secret Agent explores the subject of 'foreigners' and nationality in England; while Under Western Eyes constitutes a systematic attempt to undermine Russian national identity. Conrad emerges as an author who examines critically the forces of nationalism and national identity that troubled Europe throughout the nineteenth century and in the period before the First World War. This leads to a consideration of Conrad's work during the Great War. In his fiction and newspaper articles during the war, Conrad found a way of dealing with a conflict that made him acutely aware of being sidelined at a turning point in both modern Polish and modern European history. Finally, this book re-evaluates Conrad's late novels The Rover (1923) and Suspense (1925), a long-neglected part of his career, investigating Conrad's sustained treatment of French history in his last years alongside his life-long fascination with the cult of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191573809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book examines the philosophy of history and the subject of the nation in the literature of Joseph Conrad. It explores the importance of nineteenth-century Polish Romantic philosophy in Conrad's literary development, arguing that the Polish response to Hegelian traditions of historiography in nineteenth-century Europe influenced Conrad's interpretation of history. After investigating Conrad's early career in the context of the philosophy of history, the book analyses Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911) in light of Conrad's writing about Poland and his sustained interest in the subject of national identity. Conrad juxtaposes his belief in an inherited Polish national identity, derived from Herder and Rousseau, with a sceptical questioning of modern nationalism in European and Latin American contexts. Nostromo presents the creation of the modern nation state of Sulaco; The Secret Agent explores the subject of 'foreigners' and nationality in England; while Under Western Eyes constitutes a systematic attempt to undermine Russian national identity. Conrad emerges as an author who examines critically the forces of nationalism and national identity that troubled Europe throughout the nineteenth century and in the period before the First World War. This leads to a consideration of Conrad's work during the Great War. In his fiction and newspaper articles during the war, Conrad found a way of dealing with a conflict that made him acutely aware of being sidelined at a turning point in both modern Polish and modern European history. Finally, this book re-evaluates Conrad's late novels The Rover (1923) and Suspense (1925), a long-neglected part of his career, investigating Conrad's sustained treatment of French history in his last years alongside his life-long fascination with the cult of Napoleon Bonaparte.
From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad
Author: Robert C. Rathburn
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816604533
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
David Daisches, Douglas Bush, Robert B. Heilman, Arthur Mizener, and William Van P?Connor are among the contributors to this volume of essays on the nineteenth-century British novel. Each of the selections has been written expressly for this book and is p.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816604533
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
David Daisches, Douglas Bush, Robert B. Heilman, Arthur Mizener, and William Van P?Connor are among the contributors to this volume of essays on the nineteenth-century British novel. Each of the selections has been written expressly for this book and is p.
The Apache Diaspora
Author: Paul Conrad
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812253019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Apache Diaspora brings to life the stories of displaced Apaches and the kin from whom they were separated. Paul Conrad charts Apaches' efforts to survive or return home from places as far-flung as Cuba and Pennsylvania, Mexico City and Montreal.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812253019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Apache Diaspora brings to life the stories of displaced Apaches and the kin from whom they were separated. Paul Conrad charts Apaches' efforts to survive or return home from places as far-flung as Cuba and Pennsylvania, Mexico City and Montreal.
What Is Global History?
Author: Sebastian Conrad
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178194
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history—one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it. What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is not Eurocentric yet does not fall into the trap of creating new centrisms? How can historians compare different societies and establish compatibility across space? What are the politics of global history? This in-depth and accessible book also explores the limits of the new paradigm and even its dangers, the question of whom global history should be written for, and much more. Written by a leading expert in the field, What Is Global History? shows how, by understanding the world's past as an integrated whole, historians can remap the terrain of their discipline for our globalized present.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178194
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history—one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it. What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is not Eurocentric yet does not fall into the trap of creating new centrisms? How can historians compare different societies and establish compatibility across space? What are the politics of global history? This in-depth and accessible book also explores the limits of the new paradigm and even its dangers, the question of whom global history should be written for, and much more. Written by a leading expert in the field, What Is Global History? shows how, by understanding the world's past as an integrated whole, historians can remap the terrain of their discipline for our globalized present.