Joseph Conrad and the Reader

1. Introduction
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Part I. Theoretical Perspectives

2. Conrad’s Conception of Authorship: Probing the Implications and Limits of the Death-of-the-Author Theory
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Part II. Reception Theory: Reading as a Cultural and Ideological Construct

3. Polish Responses: Art and the Ethics of Collectivity
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4. British Reception: Englishness and the Act of Reading
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Part III. Aesthetic Ramifications, Narrative Entanglements, and Fictional Readers

5. Conrad’s Visual Aesthetics: Classical and Modern Connections
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6. A Cartography of Conrad’s Fictional Readers: Reading Hierarchy in Lord Jim, ‘Heart of Darkness’, Nostromo, and Victory
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7. Narrative Solidarity and Competition for Truth and Signification
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8. Conrad and the Construction of the Reader: Tension between Democratic Vision and Aristocratic Leaning
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9. Narrative Self-Consciousness and the Act of Reading: Examining Under Western Eyes through the Lens of the Poetics of Fielding, Sterne, and Diderot
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10. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, European Literature