Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy

Linda Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

• Introduction: Linda Dryden, Edinburgh Napier University, UK and Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway University of London, UKChapter One: ‘A Poetic Commemorations of Conrad’s Death', Ewa Kujawska-Lis, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, PolandSECTION I: MEDIATIONS Chapter Two: ‘Joseph Conrad and Alfred Hitchcock, James Robertson, independent scholarChapter Three: ‘The making and unmaking of Secret Sharer the movie’, Peter Fudakowski, independent scholarChapter Four: ‘African Apocalypse’, Rob Lemkin, independent scholar Chapter Five: ‘”Heart of Darkness”—the opera’, Tarik O’Regan, independent scholar Chapter Six: ‘Ian Sinclair’s The Gold Machine: a Conradian entanglement’, Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway University of London, UKSection II: Conrad’s ReachChapter Seven: ‘Lord Jim the classic’, Douglas Kerr, University of Hong KongChapter Eight: ‘My Debt to Conrad: A Sri Lankan Perspective’, DCRA Goonetilleke, University of Kelaniya, Sri LankaChapter Nine: ‘Trial of the Foreign: Translating Conrad into Japanese’, Kaoru Yamamoto, University of Shiga Prefecture, JapanChapter Ten: ‘Conrad and the African Museum in Tervuren’, Grazyna Plebanek, independent scholarChapter Eleven: ‘Conrad’s Cosmologies’, Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, University of Haifa, IsraelChapter Twelve: ‘Conrad post-#metoo, Susan Jones, University of Oxford, UKSection III: Institutions Chapter Thirteen: ‘Travels with Conrad’, Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University, USAChapter Fourteen: ‘”I must close this macaronic letter”: Conrad the correspondent’, Laurence Davies, University of Glasgow, UKChapter Fifteen: ‘Portrait of the Artist in the Modern World’, Linda Dryden, Edinburgh Napier University, UKChapter Sixteen: ‘Editing Conrad: The Cambridge Edition’, Allan Simmons, St. Mary’s University, UKChapter Seventeen: ‘Celebrating the Conrad Conference: 50 Years of Scholarly Congeniality from the Local to the Global’, Kim Salmons, St. Mary’s University, UKChapter Eighteen: ‘Conrad in My Life’, Keith Carabine, University of Kent, UKSelected Bibliography

An interesting and wide-ranging collection of essays on Conrad by notable contributors across academia and the arts.