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Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks demonstrates how concepts and methodologies from book history and the history of reading may be incorporated seamlessly with innovative research on a canonical writer, one whose works are studied wherever in the world English literature is taught. Evidence-based rather than theoretical, it addresses the need, repeatedly demonstrated by Conrad scholars, for a dedicated study of Conrad’s reading. Rather than yet another hermeneutic approach, looking at Conrad’s reading only in order to explain or interpret his literary production, this investigation is largely ‘reader-centred’ rather than ‘text-centred’ and introduces an original tripartite investigative strategy to show how spatial, temporal and social changes during in Conrad’s unusual life shaped his own reading practices, and thus informed his writing.
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Chambers, H. (2018). Introduction. In: Conrad's Reading. New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76487-0_1
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