Joseph Conrad: From Cosmopolitanism to Transnational Activism

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

The lecture begins with Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly, and the Preface Conrad wrote for it (with its assertion of human solidarity). It discusses the cosmopolitanism of that first novel as against the imperial vision of adventure romance. The second part discusses Nostromo in terms of dandified cosmopolitans and transnational activists. The final part discusses Conrad's own transnational activism with reference to two periods of his life - 1904-1905 and 1914-1918.
Period4 Jun 2024
Event titleT. S. Eliot Memorial Lecture
Event typeOther
LocationCanterbury, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Joseph Conrad
  • cosmopolitanism
  • transnational activism
  • Almayer's Folly
  • human solidarity
  • modernism
  • Alice Meynell
  • imperial adventure romance
  • anti-colonial resistance
  • Nostromo
  • dandified cosmopolitanism
  • dandyism
  • Baudelaire
  • scepticism
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • 'Autocracy and War'
  • Jozef Retinger
  • Polish independence

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