"My Dear Friend"

Further Letters to and about Joseph Conrad
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-420-2464-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Conrad Studies

A sequel to A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Joseph Conrad (Rodopi, 1995), this volume collects and annotates letters to Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, admirers, and publishers. An indispensable companion to the writer’s own letters, it restores the quality of exchange, interaction, and debate that belongs to a major correspondence. It also leads to a fuller, more rounded picture of Conrad in his personal and professional dealings: both of the mutualities and rituals that underpinned his close friendships and of the terms underlying his mutual disagreements with others. Familiar names are here – Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Edward Garnett, Ford Madox Ford, Bertrand Russell, and H. G. Wells – although in largely unfamiliar form, through unpublished or inaccessible materials. Another notable feature of the volume is the newly recovered correspondence relating to the implementation, by Henry Newbolt and William Rothenstein, of the Royal Bounty Fund grant awarded during one of Conrad’s most severe financial crises (1904–06).
An essential resource for the scholar, this vivid collection can also be read with pleasure by the general reader for the light it throws on Conrad the man and writer and the rich context in which he moved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Knowles, Owen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of plates
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Holders of letters
Published sources of letters and cue-titles
Correspondents
Editorial procedures
Letters
1857–1900
1904–1906
1907–1914
1915–1920
1921–1924
Post -1924
Appendix I: Ford Madox Ford’s Letter to Edward Garnett, 5 May 1928
Appendix II: Additions to the Calendar of Letters Addressed to Conrad
Appendix III: A Calendar of Missing Conrad Letters
Index of correspondents
Index of names, places, titles