Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture
Description
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 photography, sea shanties, global tourism, and the new sport of speed-walking, it shows how Conrad's fiction makes a sustained response to early-twentieth-century popular culture and will be of interest to all students, scholars and enthusiasts of Conrad.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial SciencePerforming ArtsFictionModern19th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2005Book
Author(s)Stephen Donovan
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781403908100
LanguageEnglish
