Select Bibliography This bibliography is divided into the following sections: A. Bibliographies B. Manuscripts C. Works by Conrad D. Biographies and letters E. Criticism: (i) books, (ii) essays and articles. In recent years, publications on Conrad, especially in the area of criticism and interpretation, have been very numerous, and only a selection of the more important and interesting items is listed here. For discussions of specific works, see under the appropriate entries earlier in this volume. A. BIBLIOGRAPHIES T. J. Wise's bibliography of Conrad's writings (1920) does not include the productions of his final years. The standard sources are K. A. Lohf & E. P. Sheehy ,joseph Com-ad al Mid- Century: Editions and Studies 1895-1944 (Minneapolis, 1957), and T. G. Ehrsam,A Bibliography of joseph Com-ad (New Jersey, 1969), both of which include listings of criticism and other secondary works as well as Conrad's own writings. Another useful listing of Conrad criticism is by Maurice Beebe in a special Conrad number of Modern Fiction Studies ( 1955; updated in the same journal, 1964), and the journal Conradiana (from 1968) contains details of recent publications. A good short bibliography of primary and secondary material will be found in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, IV (1972), ed. I. R. Willison, cols 395-417. Theses on Conrad (1917-63) have been listed by E. A. & H. T. Bojarski (Lexington, 1964). B. MANUSCRIPTS For the early history of Conrad's manuscripts, see under Quinn in 'A Conrad Who's Who'. The largest collection is now in Philadelphia (A. S. W. Rosenbach 177
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Select Bibliography
This bibliography is divided into the following sections: A. Bibliographies B. Manuscripts C. Works by Conrad D. Biographies and letters E. Criticism: (i) books,
(ii) essays and articles. In recent years, publications on Conrad, especially in the area of criticism and interpretation, have been very numerous, and only a selection of the more important and interesting items is listed here. For discussions of specific works, see under the appropriate entries earlier in this volume.
A. BIBLIOGRAPHIES
T. J. Wise's bibliography of Conrad's writings (1920) does not include the productions of his final years. The standard sources are K. A. Lohf & E. P. Sheehy ,joseph Com-ad al Mid- Century: Editions and Studies 1895-1944 (Minneapolis, 195 7), and T. G. Ehrsam,A Bibliography of joseph Com-ad (New Jersey, 1969), both of which include listings of criticism and other secondary works as well as Conrad's own writings. Another useful listing of Conrad criticism is by Maurice Beebe in a special Conrad number of Modern Fiction Studies ( 1955; updated in the same journal, 1964), and the journal Conradiana (from 1968) contains details of recent publications. A good short bibliography of primary and secondary material will be found in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, IV (1972), ed. I. R. Willison, cols 395-417. Theses on Conrad (1917-63) have been listed by E. A. & H. T. Bojarski (Lexington, 1964).
B. MANUSCRIPTS
For the early history of Conrad's manuscripts, see under Quinn in 'A Conrad Who's Who'. The largest collection is now in Philadelphia (A. S. W. Rosenbach
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Foundation and Richard Gimpel Collection), and there are other significant collections at the British Library and at Harvard, Yale, Indiana, and the New York Public Library.
C. WORKS BY CONRAD
There have been numerous collected editions of Conrad's writings. The first of them was the 'Sun-dial' edition, a limited edition published in New York (1920-5); a version ofit was issued by Heinemann of London (1921-7). Other editions include the 'Uniform' (1923-8) and the 'Kent' (1926). The texts of these editions are unsatisfactory and they do not include Conrad's plays, his unfinished novel The Sisters, or The Nature of a Crime, written jointly with Hueffer. Useful editions of three works have been included in the Norton Critical Edition series (New York): Heart of Darkness, ed. Robert Kimbrough ( 1963). Lord jim, ed. Thomas C. Moser ( 1968), and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', ed. Robert Kimbrough (1979). Cambridge University Press have in preparation a complete critical edition of Conrad's works. For the original publication of individual works in serial and volume versions, see the appropriate entries earlier in this book.
Conrad has been translated into many languages. A complete edition of his works into Polish has been supervised by Zdzislaw Najder. For details of translations, see Ehrsam's bibliography (above).
The Garland Publishing Co. (New York) has issued concordances to most of Conrad's works in eighteen volumes.
There have been numerous anthologies of Conrad's work, of which one of the most substantial is The Portable Conrad, ed. M.D. Zabel (1947; rev. 1969).
D. BIOGRAPHIES AND LEITERS
Among early accounts of Conrad are two by close friends: Richard Curle's The Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad ( 1928), and Ford Madox Ford's joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924). Curle also published an essay, 'Conrad as I remember him', in the Contemporary Review (1959). Conrad's wife Jessie published two attractive books,Joseph Conrad as I Knew him (1926) andjoseph Conrad and his Circle ( 1935), and there are also books by Conrad's two sons: Borys Conrad's My Father Joseph Conrad ( 1970) and john Conrad'sjoseph Conrad: Times Remembered (1981). For briefer accounts of Conrad by his contemporaries, see under Jacob Epstein, Frank Harris, Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell and others in 'A Conrad Who's Who'.
Of more formal biographies, Gerard Jean-Aubry's Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters, 2 vols ( 1927) was for long a standard work but is now superseded by more recent biographies of which the most important are Jocelyn Baines' Joseph Conrad: a Biography ( 1960), Frederick R. Karl's]oseph Conrad: the Three Lives (New York, 1979), and Zdzislaw Najder'sjoseph Conrad: A Chronicle (1983)- this last supplemented by the same author's Conrad under Familial Eyes (1983). Other
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works include jerry Allen, The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad (New York, 1965); B. C. Meyer,joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography (Princeton, 1967); and Gustav Morf, ThePolishHeritageofjoseph Conrad (1930) and ThePolishShadesandGhostsof joseph Conrad (the titles of these four books all indicate their distinctive emphasis or bias). Norman Sherry's Conrad's Eastern World (1966) and Conrad's Western World ( 1971) contain much detailed biographical information.
From his early years, when he wrote in Polish or French, to the end ofhis life, Conrad was a prolific and energetic correspondent, and over 3500 of his letters have survived. They have been described as his 'true autobiography' and contain a great deal of biographical interest. There have been a number of collections of Conrad's letters to various individuals: to his wife (1927), to Richard Curle ( 1928), to Marguerite Poradowska ( 1940, translated from French), to the publishers William Blackwood and David Meldrum (1958), and to Cunninghame Graham (1969), among others. Recently (1983) the opening volume has appeared in a projected eight-volume Collected Letters of joseph Conrad, which will clearly become the standard edition. Under the general editorship of Frederick R. Karl, it will contain all the surviving letters -over 3500 in all, of which some 1500 have not been previously published. This will obviously represent an important advance in our knowledge of Conrad; the first volume, covering the years 1861-97, is usefully annotated and includes maps and illustrations.
E. CRITICISM
(i) Books A very useful collection of early criticism of Conrad (mainly reviews ofindividual works as they appeared) is Conrad: the Critical Heritage, ed. Norman Sherry (1973). The first book to be devoted to Conrad was Richard Curle'sjoseph Conrad: a Stud,y (1914). Other important earlier studies (to 1960) are:
M. C. Bradbrook,joseph Conrad: Poland's English Genius (Cambridge, 1941). Edward Crankshaw,Joseph Conrad: Some Aspects of the Art of the Novel (1936). Adam Gillon, The Eternal Solitary: a Stud,y of joseph Conrad (New York, 1960). J.D. Gordan,joseph Conrad: the Making of a Novelist (Cambridge, Mass., 1940). Albert]. Guerard, Conrad the Novelist (Cambridge, Mass., 1958). Douglas Hewitt, Conrad: A Reassessment (Cambridge, 1952; rev. edns, 1969,
1975). Frederick R. Karl, A Reader's Guide to joseph Conrad (New York, 1960; rev. edn,
1969). F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (1948). R. L. Megroz,joseph Conrad's Mind and Method ( 1931). Thomas Moser,joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline (Cambridge, Mass., 1957). E. H. Visiak, The Mirror of Conrad (1955). Paul Wiley, Conrad's Measure of Man (Madison, 1954).
Of the numerous studies that have appeared in the past twenty-five years, the
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most important is probably Ian Watt's Conrad in the Nineteenth Century ( 1980), the first instalment of an extended study. Other notable accounts include:
Jeffrey Berman,joseph Conrad: Writing as RtsfMe (New York, 1977). Paul Bruss, Conrad's Early Slitl Fiction (Lewisburg, 1979). C. B. Cox,joseph Conrad: the Modern Imagination (1974). Andrew Davies, Conrad's War (1978). Avrom Fleishman, Conrad's Politics (Baltimore, 1967). Bell Gale, Conrad and the Romantic Hero (New Haven, 1962). R. A. Gekoski, Conrad: the Moral World of the Novelist ( 1978). Lawrence Graver, Conrad's Short Fiction (Berkeley, 1969). Eloise Knapp Hay, The Politit:lll Novels of joseph Conrad (Chicago, 1963). John A. Palmer,joseph Conrad's Fiction: a Stut!J in Literary Growth (Ithaca, 1968). E. W. Said, Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (Cambridge, Mass., 1966). Daniel R. Schwarz, 'A/mayer's Folly' to 'Under Western Eyes' (1980). Daniel R. Schwarz, Conrad: the Later Fiction ( 1982). Werner Senn, Conrad's Na"ative Voice: Stylistic Aspects of his Fiction (Bern, 1980). J. I. M. Stewart, joseph Conrad ( 1968). David Thornburn, Conrad's Romanticism (New Haven, 1974).
(ii) Essays and Articles Articles in periodicals and scholarly journals on Conrad are too numerous for even a partial listing to be attempted here; reference may be made to the bibliographies mentioned above and to the various annual bibliographies such as The Year's Work in English Studies. There have been various symposia devoted to Conrad, including an issue of the London Maga~ine (1957); The Art of Conrad: a Critical Symposium, ed. R. W. Stallman (East Lansing, 1960); joseph Conrad: Centennial Essays, ed. L. Krzyzanowski (New York, 1960); andjoseph Conrad: a Commemoration, ed. Norman Sherry ( 1976). Among other collections of shorter pieces, there is a volume on Conrad in the 'Twentieth Century Views' series, ed. Marvin Mudrick (Englewood Cliffs, 1966), and two volumes in the 'Casebook Series'-oneon The Secret Agent, ed. Ian Watt (1973), andoneonHeartofDarkness, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, ed. C. B. Cox (1981).
Other essays and chapters on Conrad will be found in the following:
Walter Allen, Six Great Novelists ( 1955). Douglas Brown, 'From Heart of Darkness toNostromo: an Approach to Conrad', in
Pelican Guide to English Literature, VII: The Modern Age, ed. Boris Ford (Harmondsworth, 1961).
David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World (Chicago, 1939; rev. edn, 1960). E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest ( 1936). Graham Hough, Image and Experience ( 1960). G. D. Killam, Africa in English Fiction ( 1968). J. Hillis Miller, Poets of Reality ( 1965). V. S. Pritchett, The Living Novel ( 1946); The Tale Bearers ( 1980). J. I. M. Stewart, Eight Modern Writers (Oxford, 1963). Raymond Williams, The English Novelfrom Dickens to Lawrence (1970). Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (1924); The Captain's Death Bed (1950). M.D. Zabel, Crcift and Character in Modern Fiction (New York, 1957).
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Mention may also be made of some of the numerous studies that compare Conrad with- or trace the influence of, or his influence upon- other writers. He has been compared with Dickens by F. R. Karl (Notes & Queries, l957),J. H. Walton (Nineteenth Century Fiction, 1968), and Norman Page (ConradiaTUJ, 1973); with T. S. Eliot by R. L. Morris (Modern Language Notes, 1950) and D. J. McConnell (Texas Studies in Language & Literature, 1962); with Ford Madox Ford by Samuel Hynes (Sewanee Review, 1965) and Hugh Kenner (Gnomon, 1958); with Thomas Hardy by R. G. Lillard (Publications of the Modern Language Association, 1935) and K. W. Hunt (Englishjournal, 1960); with ErnestHemingwaybyW. B. Bache (Modern Language Notes, 1957); with Henry James by E. K. Brown (Yale Review, 1945) and in Elsa N ettels' james and Conrad (Athens, Georgia, 1977); with Kipling by John A. McClure in his Kipling and Conrad (Cambridge, Mass., 1981); with D. H. Lawrence by K. K. Ruthven (Critical Q]larterly, 1968); with Thomas Mann by J. B. Kaye (Comparative Literature, 1957); with Maupassant by G. j. Worth Uournal qf English and Germanic Philology' 1955) and p 0 Kirschner (Review w· English Studies, 1965, 1966); with Melville by J.D. Green (Modern Fiction Studies, 1962); with Shakespeare by A. Sherbo (Notes & Q]leries, 1953) and in Adam Gillon's Conrad and Shakespeare (New York, 1976); with Turgenev by J. C. Maxwell (Notes & Queries, 1963); with Robert Penn Warren by S. L. Gross (Twentieth Century Literature, 1957); and with Zola by M. Chaikin (Studies in Philology, 1955).
159-60, 163 Some Reminiscences: see A Personal Record Suspense, 15, 129, 132-3, 163 'Tale, The', 14, 163 Tales tif Hearsay, 19, 163-4 Tales tif Unrest, 10, 29, 68, 135-8
'Tomorrow', Jl, 148-9,173 'Twixt Land and Sea, 13, 29, 156-60 'Typhoon', II, 31, 146-8, 150, 157, 165 Typhoon and Other Stories, II, 146-52 Under Western Eyes, 12, 13, 19, 22, 26,