Cedric Watts

Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham

These letters display Conrads friendship with an aristocratic Scottish adventurer who was a pioneering socialist. The elaborate annotations set the friendship in cultural and political contexts, and show how Graham influenced Conrads writings.

Literature and money: financial myth and literary truth

Offers the paradoxical thesis that works of literature often convey economic truths, whereas the world of economics and finance is sustained by myths and stories. Discusses Chaucer, Pope, Keats, Scott, Conrad, Marx, Weber, Morris and others.

Conrad and Cunninghame Graham: A Discussion with Addenda to Their Correspondence

As their correspondence shows, Conrads relationship with Cunninghame Graham, which lasted from 1897 until Conrads death in I924, was the warmest and deepest of the friendships made by the Polish exile during his career as a writer, and it was abundantly fruitful in literary consequences. In the first part of this article, I make a survey of those consequences; and in the second part, I augment the record of their correspondence by giving the texts of two unpublished letters.