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OverviewConrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s writings. Together, these essays by established and emerging scholars reveal both the crucial importance of nature in Conrad’s work, and the vital, ongoing relevance of Conrad’s treatment of the environment in our era of globalization and climate change. No richer subject matter for an environmentally-engaged criticism can be found than the Conradian contexts and themes under investigation in this volume: island cultures, colonial occupations, storms at sea, mining and extraction, inconstant weather, ecological collapse, and human communities competing for resources. The 17 essays collected here —13 new essays, and 4 excerpts from classic works of Conradian scholarship -- consolidate some of the most important voices and perspectives on Conrad’s relation to the natural world, and open new avenues for Conradian and environmental scholarship in the 21st century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lissa Schneider-Rebozo , Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy , John G. PetersPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367664831ISBN 10: 0367664836 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 30 September 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"1 Conrad, Nature, and Environmental Criticism LISSA SCHNEIDER-REBOZO AND JEFFREY MATHES MCCARTHY PART I Conrad and the Anthropocene 2 Wilderness After Nature: Conrad, Empire, and the Anthropocene JESSE OAK TAYLOR 3 Conrad in the Anthropocene: Steps to an Ecology of Catastrophe NIDESH LAWTOO 4 The Monstrous and the Secure: Reading Conrad in the Anthropocene ROBERT P. MARZEC PART II Conrad’s Atmospherics 5 Dirty Weather TROY BOONE 6 The ""Breaking-up"" of the Monsoon and Lord Jim’s Atmospherics BRENDAN KAVANAGH 7 Conrad’s Ecological Performativity: The Scenography of ""Nature"" from An Outcast of the Islands to Lord Jim MARK DEGGAN PART III Conrad, Ethics, and Ecology 8 Conrad and Nature, 1900 - 1904 HUGH EPSTEIN 9 ""A Paradise of Snakes"": Conrad’s Ecological Ambivalence J.A. BERNSTEIN 10 ‘What could his object be?’ Form and Materiality in Conrad’s ‘The Tale’ JARICA LINN WATTS PART IV Nature, Empire and Commerce 11 Nostromo and World Ecology JAY PARKER 12 ""He Can’t Throw Any of His Coal-Dust in My Eyes"": Adventurers and Entrepreneurs in Victory’s Coal Empire SAMUEL PERKS 13 Guano, Globalization and Ecosystem Change in Lord Jim MARK D. LARABEE PART V Earlier Commentary 14 From The Challenge of Bewilderment PAUL ARMSTRONG 15 ""Too Beautiful Altogether"": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness JOHANNA M. SMITH 16 From ""Beyond Mastery: The Future of Conrad’s Beginnings"" GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM 17 Solidarity in The Nigger of the ""Narcissus"": The World of Nature IAN WATT Notes on Contributors Index"ReviewsJoseph Conrad is a corner-stone for understanding modern literature and the human condition, and Conrad and Nature: Essays, both dramatically reshapes our understanding of his work in his contemporary world, and his legacy and importance in ours. -- David Mulry, College of Coastal Georgia Joseph Conrad is a corner-stone for understanding modern literature and the human condition, and Conrad and Nature: Essays, both dramatically reshapes our understanding of his work in his contemporary world, and his legacy and importance in ours. -- David Mulry, College of Coastal Georgia Joseph Conrad is a corner-stone for understanding modern literature and the human condition, and Conrad and Nature: Essays, both dramatically reshapes our understanding of his work in his contemporary world, and his legacy and importance in ours. -- David Mulry, College of Coastal Georgia Conrad and Nature: Essays is the Co-Winner of the Joseph Conrad Society of America's prestigious Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies for books published 2018, 2019, and 2020. As a volume, it will be enormously useful to Conrad scholars, scholars of empire and postcolonial studies, and scholars of nineteenth-century environments ranging from the wilderness to the sea, to the exhausted guano mines of remote Peruvian islands. --Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California, Davis Author InformationLissa Schneider-Rebozo is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is the Director of Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. John G. Peters is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, is past President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America and current General Editor of Conradiana. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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