Joseph Conrad: Prefaces by Joseph Conrad (review)

Perhaps as a still young author at the height of his powers Conrad shared that view, although that proposition is doubtful in view of "Some Reminiscences" (A Personal Record), serialized early in his career in Ford Madox Ford's English Review.5 However, later in life and posthumously,...

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Published inConradiana Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 257 - 264
Main Author Brodsky, G.W. Stephen
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Lubbock Texas Tech University Press 2015
Subjects
Aesthetics
Allusion
Anthologies
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British & Irish literature
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
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English language
Essays
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary history
Novels
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Summary:Perhaps as a still young author at the height of his powers Conrad shared that view, although that proposition is doubtful in view of "Some Reminiscences" (A Personal Record), serialized early in his career in Ford Madox Ford's English Review.5 However, later in life and posthumously, fresh editions of his greatest novels in the 1924 Dent and Doubleday collected works contained author's notes, written as self-revealing reflections on his books and stories years after their early publications. In the Table of Contents, within sets of collected stories such as Tales of Unrest, A Set of Six, etc., the constituent stories shown in the 1937 edition have been removed in the 2016 version. [...]not only has the editor's admittedly very useful Foreword taken pride of place at the start of the text (Knowles vii-xi), but Edward Garnett's brilliant introductory essay (Garnett 3–34) is relegated to last place, banished merely as a codex following the prefaces (Knowles 173–214). According to David, his father completed his Introduction to the 1937 original edition only "four or five days before he died." Since 1937, similar and more detailed lists such as Stephen Donovan's Conrad First: Index of Serializations (2002–209), and brief Conrad chronologies have long been readily available, such as is found in Morton Zabel's The Portable Conrad (1947), or more recently in the late John H. Stape's New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (2015).
ISSN:0010-6356
1935-0252
1935-0252
DOI:10.1353/cnd.2015.0030