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The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

Contents

  • The Text of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • Textual Analysis
    • Textual History
    • Present Text
    • Textual Notes
    • Glossary of Nautical Terms
    • Illustrations
    • Dennis Murphy, Seamanship in Chapter Three of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • Backgrounds and Sources
  • Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • Thomas Lavoie, Textual History and Textual Notes: The "Preface"
  • Ian Watt, Conrad's Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • Joseph Conrad, To My Readers in America
  • Edward Garnett, Letters from Joseph Conrad
  • Joseph Conrad, From His Correspondence
    • To T. Fisher Unwin, October 19, 1896
    • To Edward Garnett, October-November 1896
    • To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, November 21, 1896
    • To Edward Garnett, November-December 1896
    • To T. Fisher Unwin, December 13, 1896
    • To Edward Garnett, December 1896-January 1897
    • To Helen Watson, January 27, 1897
    • To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, January 27, 1897
    • To Edward Garnett, February-March 1897
    • To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, May 19, 1897
    • To Edward Garnett, May-June 1897
    • To Helen Watson, June 27, 1897
    • To R.B. Cunninghame Graham, August 9, 1897
    • To Edward Garnett, August-November 4, 1897
    • To Mrs. Richard Garnett, November 4, 1897
    • To Stephen Crane, November 1897
    • To Edward Garnett, December 5, 1897
    • To R.B. Cunninghame Graham, December 6-20, 1897
    • From W.H. Chesson, January 13, 1898
    • To W.H. Chesson, January 16, 1898
    • To Henry Seidel Canby, April 7, 1924
  • Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane
  • Joseph Conrad, [The Ship and the Sea]
  • Joseph Conrad, A Familiar Preface
  • G. Jean-Aubry, [Conrad on the Narcissus]
  • Gerald Morgan, The Book of the Ship Narcissus
  • Reviews and Criticism
  • Contemporary Reviews
    • From the Daily Mail, December 7, 1897
    • From the Daily Telegraph, December 8, 1897
    • From the Glasgow Herald, December 9, 1897
    • From the Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1897
    • From the Spectator, December 25, 1897
  • Criticism
    • Albert Guerard, The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
    • Ian Watt, Conrad Criticism and The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
    • Norris W. Yates, Social Comment in The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
    • Gerald Morgan, Narcissus Afloat
    • Donald T. Tochiana, The Nigger of the "Narcissus";: Myth, Mirror and Metropolis
    • John E. Saveson, Contemporary Psychology in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";
    • Sanford Pinsker, Selective Memory, Leisure, and the Language of Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the "Narcissus";
    • Robert Foulke, Postures of Belief in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";
    • William W. Bonney, Semantics and Structural Indeterminacy in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";: An Experiment in Reading
    • John Howard Weston, The Nigger of the "Narcissus"; and Its Preface
    • Paul L. Wiley, A Tale of Passion
    • Eugene B. Redmond, Racism, or Realism? Literary Apartheid, or Poetic License? Conrad’s Burden in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";
  • Selected Bibliography