The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

J. H. Stape is Senior Research Fellow at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London. He has taught at universities in Canada, France and Asia. The author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996), he has edited several of Conrad's texts for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad series and is co-editor of Conrad's Collected Letters (volumes seven and nine). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

• 1. Making the Conrad canon Andrew Purssell; 2. Reading Heart of Darkness Allan H. Simmons; 3. The political novels Richard Niland; 4. Approaching Conrad through theory: 'The Secret Sharer' Douglas Kerr; 5. Letters and autobiographical writings Andrew Glazzard; 6. Serialization Stephen Donovan; 7. Texts J. H. Stape; 8. Conrad's style Michael Greaney; 9. Reception revisited Peter Mallios; 10. Conrad and gender Debra Romanick Baldwin; 11. Postcolonial Conrad Andrew Francis; 12. Conrad and contemporary writings David Miller; 13. Conrad adapted Richard J. Hand.

'The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad complements rather than replaces the 1996 Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad … The first [Companion] set a very high standard. Its successor has lived up to that standard - both in terms of the quality of its articles and also in terms of the impeccable editing skills of J. H. Stape. This is a book that can be recommended warmly and without reservation. Order it for the library and buy an extra copy for your own bookshelf: you will want to refer to it in the days that come.' Jeremy Hawthorn, Norwegian University of Science and Technology