Joseph Conrad and the Arts of his Time

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Robert Hampson, University of London) Hampson, Robert (Professor of English, Royal Holloway

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This volume is the product of new research on Conrad’s engagement with the arts during his lifetime. Beginning with nineteenth-century Polish landscape painting and Polish theatre, the essays move through music and the performing arts during Conrad’s time in Marseilles; the opera Conrad encountered in Australia; and Conrad’s later-life knowledge of recent and contemporary classical music. Subsequent essays demonstrate his familiarity with contemporary visual art (particularly through his friendships with various artists in London); his interest in dance; and his active involvement in contemporary theatre and screen-writing. The volume concludes with a discussion of Conrad’s art as a novelist and playwright, his ‘theatrical imagination’, in relation to developments in theatre theory of the time.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399523714

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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.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Texts and Abbreviations Introduction: Joseph Conrad and the Arts of His TimeRobert Hampson1. The ‘Familiar Landscape’ in Conrad’s Polish TextsMarek Pacukiewicz2. Joseph Conrad, Apollo Nałęcz-Korzeniowski and Polish Drama in the Nineteenth CenturyKarol Samsel3. Conrad, Music and the Performing Arts in MarseillesHelen Chambers4. Conrad and Australia: Operatic Instability and ‘The Planter of Malata’James Ward5. Revisiting Jean-Aubry’s ‘Joseph Conrad and Music’ (1924)Erik Levi6. A Seeing Eye: Conrad and the Visual ArtsRobert Hampson7. Conrad and Dance: From Music Hall to ModernismSusan Jones8. ‘Un genre que Vs étonnera’: Conrad Writing for the CinemaKatherine Isobel Baxter9: Conrad, the English Literary Theatre and Grand-GuignolRichard J. Hand10. ‘A Theatrical Imagination’: Conrad’s Fiction and the Arts of the Modernist StageMark DegganNotes on ContributorsIndex

This collection reveals Conrad as a writer both conversant with and integrating an astonishing array of art forms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including music, opera, theatre, painting and dance. It is indispensable not only for Conrad scholars interested in the fullest picture of his immersion in the arts, but also for any student of culture seeking a case study of the striking interrelation of the arts in this period.