TY - BOOK ID - 33057065 TI - Conrad's Reading : Space, Time, Networks PY - 2018 SN - 3319764861 331976487X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature, Comparative KW - Philology KW - English and African. KW - History and criticism KW - Conrad, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, KW - Konrad, Dzhozef, KW - Kʻang-la-te, KW - Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Josep, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, KW - Kʻolladŭ, Josep, KW - Konrad, Dzd. KW - Conrad, Józef, KW - קונראד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונראד, ג׳וסף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונרד, יוסף KW - 康拉德, KW - Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, KW - Konrant, Tzozeph, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Books-History. KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - Literature, Modern-19th century. KW - Civilization-History. KW - History of the Book. KW - Twentieth-Century Literature. KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature. KW - Cultural History. KW - Books—History. KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - Literature, Modern—19th century. KW - Civilization—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33057065 AB - 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 documented twenty years reading at sea and in port is reconstructed. An examination the reading practices of his famous narrator Marlow then serves to link Conrad's own maritime and shore-based reading. Conrad's subsequent networked reading, shared with his closest male friends, and with literate multilingual women, is examined within the context of Edwardian reading practices. His fictional representations of reading and material texts are highlighted throughout, including genre trends, periodical reading, reading spaces and their lighting, and the use of reading as therapy. The book should appeal both to Conrad scholars and to historians of reading. ER -