The death by suicide of Gary J. Shipley’s close friend, Conrad Unger (writer, theorist and amateur entomologist), has prompted him to confront not only the cold machinery of self-erasure, but also its connections to the literary life and notions surrounding psychological bewitchment, to revaluate in both fictional and entomological terms just what it is that drives writers like...(展开全部)

“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revol...(展开全部)

A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré ‘The Dawn Watch will win prizes. If it doesn’t, there is something wrong with the prizes’ Guardian Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technol...(展开全部)

‘The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.’ So begins F. R. Leavis’s most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author’s inclusion in any list of the finest novel...(展开全部)

‘The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.’ So begins F. R. Leavis’s most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author’s inclusion in any list of the finest novel...(展开全部)