This text explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, it provides contexts for Conrad's fiction…
This text explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, it provides contexts for Conrad's fiction…
Parade's End is Ford's major achievement as a novelist. Christopher Tietjens' life is shattered by his wife's infidelities and overturned by the mud, blood and destruction of the First World War.