{"product_id":"our-conrad-9780804783132","title":"Our Conrad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a \"master\" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary work of scholarship and criticism, deeply researched, subtly argued, and lucidly perceptive in its tracing of these codings and recodings. . . Mallios's book is too rich in its detail, too wide-ranging in its scope, and too subtle in its argument to be adequately represented in a review. It is possible, in the space available, only to point to some of the highlights.\" -- Professor Robert Hampson * \u003ci\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"His tracing of Conrad's thirty-year influence on Cather's see-sawing attitudes towards race and labor is to be especially recommended; so is his account of Robert Penn Warren's Conrad-inspired progress towards opposition to segregation. . . \u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e ought to be understood by English studies scholars as an earthquake of a book.\" -- Robert L. Caserio\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Lancelot Mallios's \u003ci\u003eOur Conrad: Constituting American Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e supplies a richly textured 'literary and cultural history' of the modern American fashioning of Conrad. . . . Mallios is especially convincing in charting the historical political issues that made Conrad's oeuvre resonant to a diverse array of prominent American authors, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright.\" -- \u003ci\u003eYear's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his brilliant and compellingly readable book, \u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Lancelot Mallios provides an answer to these questions and in the process makes an impassioned and thoroughly informed case for a transnational comparatist approach to Conrad, American studies, and modernism alike,. . . \u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensible reading for any scholar of Conrad, modernism, or American studies. . . One of the finest books on Conrad that I have read.\" -- Adam Barrows\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e is a strikingly original study of cultural influence, a landmark study not of the works of Joseph Conrad but of the various understandings of Conrad held by American writers as they struggled to combine Americanness with modernism. Mallios's account opens up, in dramatically new ways, such impacted conceptual oppositions as self and other, foreign and domestic, native and alien. And it enlarges our understanding of the real cosmopolitanism of our most homegrown literary figures.\" -- Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director * National Humanities Center *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most stimulating works of scholarship I have read in some time. Mallios weaves his tale masterfully and convinces me that Conrad-in-America was much more significant than I had realized—that the reception of Conrad in America says as much about America as it does about Conrad. \u003ci\u003eOur Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e will be embraced by scholars in English and American literature and American history, as well as readers outside academia who want to understand the connection of America with the rest of the world during the early twentieth century.\" -- Fred Hobson * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405607444823,"sku":"9780804783132","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804783132.jpg?v=1730492977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-conrad-9780804783132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}