Conrad and Women [Hardcover]

This book challenges the traditional image of Joseph Conrad as writer of the sea, a man in a man's world. It re-establishes the importance of significant women in his life, and his engagement with women's writing. Rethinking received views of Conrad as a modernist writer, it also explores the experimentation of his later, less familiar works, first published in the women's pages of popular journals.

Editorial Note
Introduction
1. Conrad, Women, and the Critics
2. Woman as Hero: Conrad and the Polish Romantic Tradition
3. Conrad and Marguerite Poradowska
4. Chance: 'a fine adventure'
5. The Three Texts of Chance
6. Marketing for Women Readers
7. Visuality and Gender in Late Conrad
8. Suspense and the Novel of Sensation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Carefully researched and far-ranging... [An] ambitious and largely successful reconsideration of [Conrad's] life and work....Conrad and Womenoffers much to broaden our perspective on Conrad.... Most importantly, Jones's book helps to open Conrad's writing to the wider audience he himself sought. --English Literature in Transition 1880-1920