Rereading Conrad.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-03

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Rereading Conrad. By DANIEL R. SCHWARZ. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. 2001. ix+194 pp. 14.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-82621-327-8.

In this book Daniel R. Schwarz has some interesting things to say about 'setting' as it functions in Conrad, and this is apposite since the book itself functions to provide a new 'setting' for some of Schwarz's previously published work. All eight of the essays which comprise it have appeared before. One, 'Conrad's Quarrel with Politics in Nostromo', appeared in College English in 1997. Four others have been published in edited collections: 'Joseph Conrad' was a chapter in The Columbia History of the British Novel, edited by John J. Richetti in 1994 (New York: Columbia University Press); 'Signing the Frame, Framing the Sign: Multiculturalism, Canonicity, Pluralism, and the Ethics of Reading Heart of Darkness' an essay in Beyond Poststructuralism, edited...

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