Conrad's Reading: Space, Time, Networks

by Helen Chambers

Book Overview

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representations of reading, illuminates his childhood, maritime and later shore-based reading. After an overview of the empirical evidence of Conrad's reading, his sparsely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030095002
• ISBN13: 9783030095000
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"