Nostromo - A Tale of the Seaboard

The newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this edition offers scholars for the first time an authoritative text of Nostromo, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors, and features a thorough introduction and informative textual essay.

List of contents

List of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.

About the author

Roger Osborne is Associate Professor at James Cook University, Australia. His research concentrates on Australian literature and British modernism seen through the lens of book history, magazine culture and scholarly editing. He is a contributing editor to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Roger completed his first edition, Under Western Eyes, in 2013. His work on the trans-national nature of Australian print culture has been published widely, and his co-authored book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s, the first of two projected volumes, was published in 2018.Hugh Epstein is the Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He has contributed numerous journal articles on Conrad and on Hardy and has spoken at many conferences worldwide on both authors. His book Hardy, Conrad and the Senses was published in 2020.

Summary

The newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this edition offers scholars for the first time an authoritative text of Nostromo, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors, and features a thorough introduction and informative textual essay.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad
• Assisted by: Hugh Epstein (Editor), Epstein Hugh (Editor), Roger Osborne (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781108835510
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83551-0
• No. of pages: 850
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary