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
The Conradian 50.1 (Spring 2025)
- Hugh Epstein on Xiaoling Yao Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity (New York: Routledge, 2024)
- G. W. Stephen Brodsky on John G. Peters Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
The Conradian 49.2 (Autumn 2024)
- 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 The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Routledge, 2024)
The Conradian 49.1 (Spring 2024)
- Gene M. Moore on Roger Osborne with Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press, 2023))
- Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska on Alexia Hannis The Discerning Narrator. Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity (Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, 2023)
The Conradian 48.2 (Autumn 2023)
- Hugh Epstein on Robert Hampson and Véronique Pauly The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
The Conradian 48.1 (Spring 2023)
- Anthony Fothergill on Allan H. Simmons and Michael Foster; Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons 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)
The Conradian 47.2 (Autumn 2022)
- Richard Niland on John G. Peters The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Norton, 2015) D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness (Broadview Press, 2020)
The Conradian 47.1 (Spring 2022)
- Paul Skinner on Jeremy Hawthorn with the assistance of Max Saunders The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story. The Nature of a Crime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- Hugh Epstein on Johan Warodell Conrad’s Decentered Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
The Conradian 46.2 (Autumn 2021)
- Richard J. Hand on John G. Peters Conrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations (Brill Rodopi 2019)
The Conradian 46.1 (Spring 2021)
- Jay Parker on Robert Hampson Joseph Conrad. Critical Lives. (London: Reaktion Books, 2020)
- Richard Niland on Jean M. Szczypien “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad (London: Peter Lang, 2017)
- Anthony Fothergill on Kim Salmons Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
The Conradian 45.2 (Autumn 2020)
No reviews
The Conradian 45.1 (Spring 2020)
- William Atkinson on Hugh Epstein Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
- Rachel J Fenton on Peter Kuper, foreword by Maya Jasanoff Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (W.W. Norton, 2019)
The Conradian 44.2 (Autumn 2019)
- Hugh Epstein on Alexandre Fachard and J. H. Stape The Rover, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- Andrew Purssell on Laurence Davies The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
The Conradian 44.1 (Spring 2019)
- Richard Niland on Mark D. Larabee Three Editions of Heart of Darkness (Praeger, 2018) John G. Peters (Broadview Editions, 2018) Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
The Conradian 43.2 (Autumn 2018)
No reviews
The Conradian 43.1 (Spring 2018)
- Hugh Epstein on John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe J. Hillis Miller Reading Conrad (Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, 2017)
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Helen Chambers Conrad's Reading: Space, Time, Networks (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan) (Springer Nature, 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 The Nigger of the “Narcissus” Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
The Conradian 42.2 (Autumn 2017)
- Keith Carabine on Maya Jasanoff The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (William Collins, 2017.)
- David Mulry on Richard Niland Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Norton Critical Edition (London and New York: W. W. Norton, 2017.)
The Conradian 42.1 (Spring 2017)
- Peter Lancelot Mallios on J. H. Stape and Alexandre Fachard, with the Assistance of Aaron Zacks and an Introduction by Richard Niland Victory, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
- Hugh Epstein on Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson Conrad and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Werner Senn Conrad’s Narrative Voice: Stylistic Aspects of His Fiction. Conrad Studies 10. (Leiden and Boston, Mass: Brill Rodopi, 2017;)
The Conradian 41.2 (Autumn 2016)
- Richard Niland on Allan H. Simmons 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 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. )
- Hugh Epstein on Eben Venter Trencherman, translated from Afrikaans by Luke Stubbs (London: Scribe, 2016,)
The Conradian 41.1 (Spring 2016)
- Alexandra Peat on Robert Burden Travel, Modernism and Modernity (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. )
- Véronique Pauly on J. H. Stape and John G. Peters Conrad’s “The Duel”: Sources/Text,Conrad Studies 8 (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2015.)
- Allan H. Simmons on Owen Knowles A Conrad Chronology, Second Edition ( Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.)
- Gene M. Moore on Andrew Francis Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.)
- Andrew Glazzard on Linda Dryden Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
The Conradian 40.2 (Autumn 2015)
- Stephen Ross on Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, and Jakob Lothe Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-colonialism (Cape Town: UCT Press, 2015.)
- Michael John DiSanto on Richard Ruppel A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2015.)
- Andrew Glazzard on John G. Peters Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception (Cambridge, New York, Melbourne et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
The Conradian 40.1 (Spring 2015)
- Jeremy Hawthorn on J. H. Stape The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Linda Dryden on John G. Peters A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
- Hugh Epstein on William Freedman Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.)
- Justin Tonra on J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons, with an Introduction by Owen Knowles The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.)
The Conradian 39.2 (Autumn 2014)
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Alan H. Goldman Philosophy and the Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.)
The Conradian 39.1 (Spring 2014): Special Issue – Chance: Centennial Essays
- Jesse Oak Taylor on Thomas Strychacz Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, Lawrence (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2008.)
- Johan Warodell on Robert Hampson Conrad’s Secrets (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
The Conradian 38.2 (Autumn 2013)
No reviews
The Conradian 38.1 (Spring 2013)
- Peter Lancelot Mallios on Allan H. Simmons, John G. Peters, and J. H. Stape Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews, Vols. I-IV. (Cambnridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.)
- John Lester on J. H. Stape and Ernest W. Sullivan II. Lord Jim (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Conrad's 'Lord Jim': A Transmission of the Manuscript ( Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010)
The Conradian 37.2 (Autumn 2012)
No reviews
The Conradian 37.1 (Spring 2012)
- Ellie Stedall on Pawel Jedrzejko, Milton M. Reigelman, and Zuzanna Szatanik Hearts of Darkness: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of Oppression (Zabrze: MStudio, 2010.) Secret Sharers: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of the Real (Zabrze: MStudio, 2011.)
- Peter Lancelot Mallios on Richard Niland Conrad and History (Oxford English Monographs. Oxford Unversity Press, 2010.)
The Conradian 36.2 (Autumn 2011): Under Western Eyes: Centennial Essays
No reviews
The Conradian 36.1 (Spring 2011)
- Richard Niland on Harold Ray Stevens and J. H. Stape Last Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- Mark Conroy on Peter Mallios Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2010.)
- Andrew Francis on Tarik O'Regan (music) and Tom Phillips (libretto) Heart of Darkness ( based on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” The LInbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1, 2, 4, and 5 November 2011)
- Mario Curreli on Gene M. Moore Joseph Conrad, Suspense (Cambridge University Press, 2011.)
- John Lyon on Joseph Conrad, Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether Owen Knowles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.)
- Andrew Francis on Chantal Akerman's film La Folie Almayer (2011) (directed and with a screenplay by Chantal Akerman)
- A. M. Purssell on Katherine Isobel Baxter Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing , 2010.)
- Frances Wilson on David Miller Today (London: Attlantic Books, 2011.)
- J. H. Stape on Tadeusz Bobrowski A Memoir of My Life, translated and introduced by Addison Bross. Eastern European Monographs (New York: (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 (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010)
- Andrew Francis on David Zane Mairowitz and illustrated by Catherine Anyango Heart of Darkness: A Graphic Novel (SelfMadeHero, 2010)
The Conradian 35.2 (Autumn 2010)
No reviews
The Conradian 35.1 (Spring 2010)
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Joseph A. Kestner Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010.)
- Hugh Epstein on Michael John DiSanto Under Conrad's Eyes: The Novel as Criticism (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Series, No. 47. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)
- Ludwig Schnauder on Richard J. Hand Victory: The Play and Reviews ( Conrad Studies series. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009)
- Jeremy Hawthorn on Allan H. Simmons Jeremy Hawthorn on Joseph Conrad in Context ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. )
The Conradian 34.2 (Autumn 2009)
No reviews
The Conradian 34.1 (Spring 2009): Themed Issue on Biography
- J. H. Stape on Mary Ann Gillies The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920 (General Editor: Leslie HowsamToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)
- Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan on Yael Levin Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.)
- David Miller on John G. Peters Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi) Criticism () Publicity ()
- Jakob Lothe on Katherine Isobel Baxter and Richard J. Hand Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.)
- John Lester on Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata, and Eric Massie Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009.)
- Hugh Epstein on Masayuki Teranishi Polyphony in Fiction, a Stylistic Analysis of Middlemarch, Nostromo and Herzog. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008.)
- John G. Peters on Keith Carabine 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. Volume Editors: Keith Carabine, Tom Hubbard, and Lindy Stiebel. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2009.)
- Richard Niland on Zdzisław Najder and J. H. Stape A Personal Record ((Cambridge University Press, 2008))
- Helen Baron on J. A. Berthoud, Laura L. Davis, and S. W. Reid Twixt Land and Sea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- A. M. Purssell on Agnes Swee Kim Yeow Conrad's Eastern Vision: A Vain and Floating Appearance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)