Intimations of Joseph Conrad: A Century of Sightings and Citings of Conrad’s Presences in Print, Crafts, Media and Monuments

Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
About the Editor
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Imperialist Colonialism and the Received Canon
	Conrad’s Ghost—An Unrestful Tale of Conrad and Roger Casement
		Sightings of Conrad in King Leopold’s Ghost, Unexplained in Allan Hepburn’s Intrigue: Espionage and Culture1
	The Mission Song—A Post-Postcolonial Sighting2
	Conrad and “Nationalism” in the Centenary Year of The Arrow of Gold3
	A Modern Heart of Darkness—Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes4
	Sightings and Citings in The Voice of England5
	The Canon Withers, Whither Baugh?: Conrad in  A Literary History of England6
Chapter 3: Contemporaries and Others: Sightings by and of Conrad
	Through a Glass Darkly: Conrad’s Sighting of Matthew Arnold (1822–88)1
	The Other Joseph Conrad4
	Joseph Conrad, Tadeusz Bobrowski, and Molière’s George Dandin5
	Conrad, Ford, and Narcissus: A Postfactual Sighting Through the Looking-Glass15
	Conrad and Violet Hunt17
	Conrad, Wilson, Everest, and Victory in Defeat—A Sighting18
	A Sighting of Conrad in Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon
	Conrad’s Age of Sail: Derek Lundy’s The Way of a Ship
Chapter 4: Conrad and War, and Its Aftermath
	Conrad Sightings in Two Wars1
	Sightings in a Fog: Conrad’s “The Tale,” Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and Martha Grimes’s The Knowledge
	Reception as Lethal Inspiration: Conrad’s Romance and Hankey’s “Romance”14
	Sighting: Joseph Conrad Stalks Nazi Paris
	Postwar Economic NeoImperialism in Le Carré’s The Constant Gardener
	Conrad and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel: Paul Scott’s The Chinese Love Pavilion
Chapter 5: Conrad’s Influence in Postmodern Literature and Abroad, and in the Performing Arts
	Comforting Myths and Conrad’s Discomfort1
	Conrad Seen and Not Seen Inaugurally in Plain Sight in Embers
	Seeing Freddie Double: A Sighting of Joseph Conrad3
	A Glimpse of Joseph Conrad in Albert Camus’s The Plague?
	The Catastrophist and the Shifting Shapes of Darkness: A Conradian Presence in Post-imperial Congo5
	Joseph Conrad in Iran8
	Odi et Amo: Conrad’s “The Return” Revisited in Chéreau’s Gabrielle10
	Ladies in Lavender: A Lightly Lavender-Tinted Conrad Sighting
	“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Kurtz’s Legacy in An Apocalyptic Documentary Film
	The Secret Agent as Opera: A Revenant Sighting of a Musical lieu de memoire
Chapter 6: Conrad in the Spy Novel and Modern Popular Literature
	Spying on Lord Jim’s Double Agent Avatar: Conrad in John Le Carré’s Our Game (1995)1
	Joseph Conrad in John Le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy3
	A Sighting at the Corner of the Eye: Conrad and le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl4
	R. B. Cunninghame Graham in Paraguay5
	Saturday—A Conrad Mystery Sighting6
	Roland’s Early Erotic Feast and a Sighting of Marlow’s Early Exotic East in Ian McEwan’s Lessons
	A Sebald Sighting of Conrad
	Conrad’s Theft from Altamirano in The Secret History of Costaguana9
Chapter 7: Monuments of Words and Wood in Craft Ashore and Crafts at Sea, in Bronze and Stone
	The Joseph Conrad pub
	The Fullerton Hotel Plaque
	The Sailing Ship Joseph Conrad
	A Chance Sighting in Wood and Words: Conrad, Masefield, Krenov, Van Norman and Munday4
	Tremolino, Trem, Lance Lee, a Retrospective Monumental Conrad Sighting and a Personal Reminiscence
	Jacob Epstein’s Bronze Bust of Conrad
	The Gdynia Conrad Monument as Crypto-Discourse
Chapter 8: Conclusion: A Tale of Two Cities, a Plaque, a Triptych, a Beginning and an End
Envoie
Bibliography
Index