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Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad
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Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad

Edited by Owen Knowles, Gene M. Moore

‘Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous’ – Matthew Beaumont, Times Literary Supplement

Over 400 entries cover Conrad's Conrad's life (health, Polish inheritance, the sea, ships and voyages), people (Borys Conrad, Apollo and Ewa Korzeniowski, J. M. Barrie, Stephen Crane, Stefan Zeromski), places (America, Bangkok, Berdyczow, Congo, Cracow, Marseilles), novels (Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo), stories, essays, and reviews (‘An Anarchist’, ‘Typhoon’, ‘Autocracy and War‘, ‘Legends’, ‘Tales of the Sea’), influences and sources (James Brooke, Alighieri Dante, Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emile Zola), characters (Almayer family, Mr Jones, Jim, Captain Mitchell, Nostromo, the Professor, Edith Travers), reputation (biographies, films, influences on other writers, portraits and other images, translations), and historical context (First World War, Polish question, women's suffrage movement).

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2000
Print ISBN-13:
9780198604211
Published to Oxford Reference:
2011
Current Online Version:
2012
eISBN:
9780191735011

Authors

Owen Knowles, editor

Gene M. Moore, editor

Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, together with their team of distinguished Advisers and Contributors, have created a unique and authoritative reference work on all things Conradian.

Owen Knowles, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull, is the author ofA Conrad Chronology(1989) and An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Joseph Conrad(1992). A former editor of The Conradian, he has also edited Conrad's Almayer’s Folly in the Everyman’s Library and is co-editor of A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Conrad (1996) and the Cambridge Edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, vi: 1917–1919.

Gene M. Moore teaches English and American literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His publications include Conrad’s Cities: Essays for Hans van Marle (1992), Conrad on Film (1997), and numerous Conradian essays and reviews. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Edition of Conrad’s Suspense and of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, viii: 1923–1924.

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