The Conradian Reviews
Online Reviews
The Conradian does not normally publish reviews in its print version, the exception to this being coverage of the volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad.
Online reviews will from time to time be published on this site. The views expressed by the authors are, of course, their own.
The hyperlink to a reviewer’s name gives access to the review itself. A hyperlink under a title is to the publisher and allows for direct ordering from this site of the book under review.
Recommended Citation Format
The recommended citation format for quoting from these reviews or listing them in a bibliography is as follows: The Conradian Reviews, followed by the issue number of the journal in round brackets (all reviews considered as appearing in number ‘1’), followed by a colon and then by the number of the review as per the order given below. Thus, for instance:
John G. Peters. Review of Keith Carabine, ed. Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part VII: Joseph Conrad. The Conradian Reviews 34.1 (2009): 1.
Books for Review
Authors or publicists wishing to supply review copies for potential review on this site should contact Dr Richard Niland:
Reviews
2025: 50.2
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2025: 50.1
- Hugh Epstein on Xiaoling Yao, Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity (Routledge, 2024) NEW
- G. W. Stephen Brodsky on John G. Peters, Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence (Edinburgh UP, 2024).
2024: 49.2
- Patricia Pye on John G. Peters, Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
- Robert Hampson on Debra Romanick Baldwin (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Routledge, 2024).
2024: 49.1
- Gene M. Moore on Roger Osborne (ed.) with Hugh Epstein, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
- Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska on Alexia Hannis, The Discerning Narrator. Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity (University of Toronto, 2023).
2023: 48.2
- Hugh Epstein on Robert Hampson and Véronique Pauly (eds.) The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).
2023: 48.1
- Anthony Fothergill on Allan H. Simmons and Michael Foster (eds.) with Owen Knowles, A Set of Six (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
- Susan Zhang Maginn on David J. Supino Joseph Conrad: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Editions to 1930 (Liverpool University Press, 2022).
2022: 47.2
- Richard Niland on John G. Peters (ed.) The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Norton, 2015) D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke (ed.) Heart of Darkness (Broadview Press, 2020).
2022: 47.1
- Paul Skinner on Jeremy Hawthorn (ed.) with the assistance of Max Saunders, The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story. The Nature of a Crime , The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
- Hugh Epstein on Johan Warodell, Conrad’s Decentered Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2022),
2021: 46.2
- Richard J. Hand on John G. Peters (ed.) Conrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations (Brill Rodopi 2019).
2021: 46.1
- Jay Parker on Robert Hampson, Joseph Conrad. Critical Lives. (Reaktion Books, 2020).
- Richard Niland on Jean M. Szczypien, “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad (Peter Lang, 2017).
- Anthony Fothergill on Kim Salmons, Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
2020: 45.1
- William Atkinson on Hugh Epstein, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses. (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
- Rachel J Fenton on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, adapted by Peter Kuper, foreword by Maya Jasanoff (W.W. Norton, 2020)
2019: 44.2
- Hugh Epstein on Alexandre Fachard and J. H. Stape (eds.) The Rover, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
- Andrew Purssell on Laurence Davies (ed.) The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
2019: 44.1
- Richard Niland on Mark D. Larabee ed., The Historian’s Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad’s Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History (Praeger, 2018); John G. Peters ed., Heart of Darkness (Broadview Editions, 2018); Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons eds., Heart of Darkness (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
2018: 43.1
- Hugh Epstein on John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe (ed.) J. Hillis Miller Reading Conrad (Ohio State University Press, 2017).
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Helen Chambers, Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
- Yael Levin on Nidesh Lawtoo, Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory. (East Lansing: Michigan University Press, 2016).
- Debra Romanick Baldwin on Allan H. Simmons (ed.), The Nigger of the “Narcissus” Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
2017: 42.2
- Keith Carabine on Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (London and Glasgow: William Collins, 2017).
- David Mulry on Richard Niland (ed.), Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Norton Critical Edition (London and New York: W. W. Norton, 2017).
2017: 42.1
- Peter Lancelot Mallios on J. H. Stape and Alexandre Fachard (eds.), Victory, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- Hugh Epstein on Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson (eds.), Conrad and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Werner Senn, Conrad’s Narrative Voice: Stylistic Aspects of His Fiction. Conrad Studies 10. (Brill Rodopi, 2017).
2016: 41.2
- Richard Niland on Allan H. Simmons (ed.), An Outcast of the Islands Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- Gene M. Moore on Andrew Glazzard, Conrad’s Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
- Hugh Epstein on Eben Venter, Trencherman, translated from Afrikaans by Luke Stubbs (Scribe, 2016).
2016: 41.1
- Alexandra Peat on Robert Burden, Travel, Modernism and Modernity (Ashgate, 2015).
- Véronique Pauly on J. H. Stape and John G. Peters (eds.), Conrad’s “The Duel”: Sources/Text,Conrad Studies 8 (Brill/Rodopi, 2015).
- Allan H. Simmons on Owen Knowles, A Conrad Chronology, Second Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
- Gene M. Moore on Andrew Francis, Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
- Andrew Glazzard on Linda Dryden, Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
2015: 40.2
- Stephen Ross on Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-colonialism (UCT Press, 2015), eds. Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, and Jakob Lothe
- Michael John DiSanto on Richard Ruppel, A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad (Lexington Books, 2015).
- Andrew Glazzard on John G. Peters, Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
2015: 40.1
- Jeremy Hawthorn on The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2015), ed. J. H. Stape
- Linda Dryden on A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), ed. John G. Peters
- Hugh Epstein on William Freedman Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge (University of South Carolina Press, 2014).
- Justin Tonra on The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Cambridge University Press, 2013), ed. J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons, with an Introduction by Owen Knowles
2014: 39.2
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Alan H. Goldman, Philosophy and the Novel (Oxford University Press, 2013).
2014: 39.1
- Jesse Oak Taylor on Thomas Strychacz, Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, Lawrence (University Press of Florida, 2008).
- Johan Warodell on Robert Hampson, Conrad’s Secrets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
2013: 38.2
- Peter Lancelot Mallios on Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), ed. Allan H. Simmons, John G. Peters, and J. H. Stape
2013: 38.1
- John Lester on Lord Jim (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Conrad’s ‘Lord Jim’: A Transmission of the Manuscript (Rodopi, 2010), ed. J. H. Stape and Ernest W. Sullivan II.
2012: 37.1
- Ellie Stedall on Hearts of Darkness: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of Oppression (MStudio, 2010), and Secret Sharers: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of the Real (MStudio, 2011).
- Peter Lancelot Mallios on Richard Niland Conrad and History (Oxford University Press, 2010).
2011: 36.1
- Richard Niland on Last Essays, ed. Harold Ray Stevens and J. H. Stape (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
- Mark Conroy on Peter Mallios Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2010).
- Andrew Francis on Tarik O’Regan’s and Tom Phillips’s opera Heart of Darkness (2011), world premiere at The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- Mario Curreli on Joseph Conrad, Suspense ed. Gene M. Moore (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- John Lyon on Joseph Conrad, Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether, ed. Owen Knowles (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
- Andrew Francis on Chantal Akerman’s film La Folie Almayer (2011).
- A. M. Purssell on Katherine Isobel Baxter, Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance (Ashgate, 2010).
- Frances Wilson on David Miller, Today (Atlantic Books, 2011).
- J. H. Stape on Tadeusz Bobrowski, A Memoir of My Life, translated and introduced by Addison Bross. Eastern European Monographs (Columbia University Press, 2008).
- John Lester on Christopher Scoble, Letters from Bishopsbourne: Three Writers in an English Village (Cheltenham: BMM 2010).
- Hugh Epstein on Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Secret History of Costaguana, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010).
- Andrew Francis on Heart of Darkness: A Graphic Novel , adapted by David Zane Mairowitz and illustrated by Catherine Anyango (SelfMadeHero, 2010).
2010: 35.1
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Joseph A. Kestner, Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915. (Ashgate, 2010).
- Hugh Epstein on Michael John DiSanto. Under Conrad’s Eyes: The Novel as Criticism (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
- Ludwig Schnauder on Victory: The Play and Reviews, edited by Richard J. Hand (Rodopi, 2009).
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Joseph Conrad in Context, edited by Allan H. Simmons (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
2009: 34.1
- J. H. Stape on Mary Ann Gillies. The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920 (University of Toronto Press, 2007).
- Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan on Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad’s Novels. by Yael Levin (Palgrave, 2008).
- David Miller on Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography / Criticism / Publicity, edited by John G. Peters (Editions Rodopi, 2008).
- Jakob Lothe on Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts, edited by Katherine Isobel Baxter and Richard J. Hand (Ashgate, 2009)
- John Lester on Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition, edited by Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata, and Eric Massie (Texas Tech University Press, 2009).
- Hugh Epstein on Polyphony in Fiction, a Stylistic Analysis of Middlemarch, Nostromo and Herzog. by Masayuki Teranishi (Peter Lang, 2008).
- John G. Peters on Keith Carabine, ed., Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part VII: Joseph Conrad: Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries. 3 vols. Series Editor: Ralph Pite (Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2009).
- Richard Niland on A Personal Record edited by Zdzisław Najder and J. H. Stape (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- Helen Baron on Twixt Land and Sea, edited by J. A. Berthoud, Laura L. Davis, and S. W. Reid (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- A. M. Purssell on Conrad’s Eastern Vision: A Vain and Floating Appearance by Agnes Swee Kim Yeow (Palgrav, 2008).