Frances Wilson tells the strange and fascinating story of the owner of the Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, the man who jumped ship.
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Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and how this reception was crucial to the formation of modernism and American culture more generally. Born in Poland and early displaced throughout Russia and the European continent, this sailor, world traveler, and ult…
Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies.
Reevaluating 20th century literature and culture, this book studies the interrelations between English, Creole, and Indonesian formations of literary modernism. Each modernist formation is explained through a set of comparative studies of the fiction of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys,…
