Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad, Roger Osborne (Editor), Hugh Epstein (Editor)

Overview

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America. It is an enduring portrait of global economics and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This first comprehensive and authoritative critical edition offers an introduction clarifying the novel's origins and sources, while explanatory notes detail literary and historical references. An accompanying essay lays out the history of composition and publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad's editors. Also included are appendices of Conrad's source material; glossaries of nautical and foreign terms; a map; and reproductions of early drafts. By returning to (and respecting) Conrad's own early manuscript and typescript forms, this edition presents the novel and its preface in a form more authoritative than any so far.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108835510
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/29/2023
Series:	The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
Pages:	850
Product dimensions:	5.79(w) x 8.78(h) x 2.05(d)

About the Author

Roger Osborne is Associate Professor at James Cook University, Australia. His research concentrates on Australian literature and British modernism seen through the lens of book history, magazine culture and scholarly editing. He is a contributing editor to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Roger completed his first edition, Under Western Eyes, in 2013. His work on the trans-national nature of Australian print culture has been published widely, and his co-authored book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s, the first of two projected volumes, was published in 2018.

Hugh Epstein is the Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He has contributed numerous journal articles on Conrad and on Hardy and has spoken at many conferences worldwide on both authors. His book Hardy, Conrad and the Senses was published in 2020.

Date of Birth:

December 3, 1857

Date of Death:

August 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Berdiczew, Podolia, Russia

Place of Death:

Bishopsbourne, Kent, England

Education:

Tutored in Switzerland. Self-taught in classical literature. Attended maritime school in Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"I had always thought that there were books you read to entertain yourself and classic books to educate you, but with Nostromo I realised a book could be both." —-Billy Ivory, Nottingham Evening Post

Editorial Reviews

"I had always thought that there were books you read to entertain yourself and classic books to educate you, but with Nostromo I realised a book could be both." ---Billy Ivory, Nottingham Evening Post

From the Publisher

"Nadelhaft negotiates the impasse between existential and political responses to the book. In reaffirming that the personal is the political, she demonstrates how Nostromo represents the process whereby 'imperialism transmits the virus of alienation.' Joined with the historical apparatus so characteristic of Broadview Editions, such theorizing genuinely reopens a book that hasn't yet received its due."

Michael Coyle Colgate University

"Ruth Nadelhaft's new edition of Nostromo is a timely addition to the Broadview Editions series. Without neglecting the traditional critical and biographical approaches, the supplementary materials and lucid introduction place Conrad's difficult masterpiece fully and clearly within its contemporary contexts (especially the events surrounding the Panama Canal project), and in relation to our own debates about imperialism, colonials, and alleged racism in Conrad's work. Broadview's Nostromo, like its companion volumes, is truly a text for the way we teach now."

David Latane Jr. Virginia Commonwealth University