Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture
This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day. Drawing on original archival materials and treating subjects as diverse as Bovril advertising, spirit photograp
- PDF / 1,927,667 Bytes
- 250 Pages / 394 x 615 pts Page_size
- 32 Downloads / 337 Views
Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture
This page intentionally left blank
Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture Stephen Donovan Blekinge Institute of Technology Karlskrona, Sweden
© Stephen Donovan 2005 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-4039-0810-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-51048-1
ISBN 978-0-230-51377-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9780230513778 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Donovan, Stephen, 1970– Joseph Conrad and popular culture / Stephen Donovan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924 – Knowledge – Popular culture. 2. Popular culture in literature. I. Title. PR6005.O4Z659 2005 823⬘.912—dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05
2005047042
For Jeremy en av oss
This page intentionally left blank
Contents List of Plates and Figures
viii
Acknowledgements
x
Abbreviations
xii
Introduction
1
1
Visual Entertainment
15
2
Tourism
63
3
Advertising
112
4
Magazine Fiction
161
Conclusion
191
Notes
198
Works Cited
211
Index
225
vii
List of Plates and Figures Dust Jacket. Joseph Conrad photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1916. Reproduced with permission of George Eastman House.
Plates 1 Joseph Conrad, pen-and-ink sketch, mid-1890s. Reproduced for the first time by permission of the Trustees of the Joseph Conrad Estate and the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations 2 Advertising handbill, c.1900. Reproduced by permission of Bodleian Library, John Johnson Collection, Oxford
Figures 1 Freda Bone, ‘Rio Grande’, woodcut
Data Loading...
