Conrad and Language

Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of 'Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance' (2010) and the co-editor of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 'Conrad and Language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and 'Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts' (2009). She is general editor of the journal 'English'. Robert Hampson is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Joseph Conrad (2020), Conrad’s Secrets (2012), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction (2000) and Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992). He is co-editor of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad (2022), Conrad and Language (EUP, 2016), Ford Madox Ford’s Modernity (2003), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-Appraisal (2002), and Conrad and Theory (1998). He is Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), co-editor of The Conradian and on the editorial board of Conradiana and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad.

• A Note on Texts; Conrad and Language: Introduction, Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson; Conrad and Maritime Language: Flying Moors and Crimson Barometers, Robert Hampson; ‘I have something in hand that shall strike terror into the heart of these gorged brutes’: The Many Meanings of Terror in Conrad’s Fiction, Andrew Glazzard; Conrad, George Moore and the Critique of Abstract Language, John Attridge; Conrad´s Language of Passivity: Unmoving towards Late Modernism, Yael Levin; The Powers of Speech in Conrad’s Fiction, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet; ‘Soundless as Shadows’: Language and Disability in the Political Novels, Katherine Isobel Baxter; Joseph Conrad and Romanized Print Form: from Tuan Almayer to Prince Roman, Chris GoGwilt; Languages in Conrad’s Malay Fiction, Andrew Francis; Gallicisms: The Secret Agent in Conrad’s Prose, Claude Masionnat; ‘The speech of my secret choice’: Conrad and English, Andrew Purssell; Recent Russian Translations of Under Western Eyes and The Secret Agent, Ludmilla Voitkovska; Afterword, Laurence Davies.

…in its variety, intelligence, and its representative quality, this is a collection to be recommended to any Conrad scholar.