Helen Chambers. Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks

Abstract

By means of extended archival research and the help of the recently-developed open access repository that goes by the name of Reading Experience Database, (UKRED), Helen Chambers has achieved a number of firsts with this book. She is the first to have systematically explored the reading life of Joseph Conrad from his early years in occupied Poland, through his maritime career, to his life as a multicultural writer in South-East England. Given that Chambers is almost as well-travelled a biblio...