Joseph Conrad and ‘literary impressionism’: a term best avoided?

Authors

  • Cedric Watts University of Sussex

Keywords:

Joseph Conrad, Literary Impressionism, English Literature

Abstract

In this essay, I propose that, although the term ‘literary impressionism’ has clear historical credentials, it is best avoided in future analyses of Joseph Conrad’s work.

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Author Biography

Cedric Watts, University of Sussex

Cedric Watts served in the Royal Navy, 1956-8. He was an Exhibitioner at Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1958-61, graduating with a First in English. He also took his MA and Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He became a lecturer at Sussex University in 1965; a Reader in 1979; and a Professor in 1983. From 2002 to 2011 he was a Research Professor of English. In 2011 he became an Emeritus Professor of English.

References

CONRAD, Joseph. The Shadow-Line. London: Dent, 1950.

CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. London: Orion Dent Everyman, 1993.

DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. London and Glasgow: Collins, n.d.

FORD; Madox Ford. Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance. London: Duckworth, 1924.

GARNETT, Edward (Ed.). Letters from Conrad, 1895-1924. London: Nonesuch Press, 1928.

PETERS, John G. Conrad and Impressionism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Studies in the Novel, n. 34, dez. 2002, pp. 473-6.

WATT, Ian. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century. London: Chatto & Windus, 1980.

WATTS, C.T. (Ed.). Joseph Conrad: An Outcast of the Islands. London: Orion Dent Everyman, 1996.

WATTS, C.T. (Ed.). Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

WATTS, C. T. (Ed.). Conrad’s ‘Preface’ to The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ London: Penguin, 1988.

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Published

2019-12-30

How to Cite

WATTS, Cedric.
Joseph Conrad and ‘literary impressionism’: a term best avoided?
. Afluente: Revista de Letras e Linguística, v. 4, n. 14, p. 40–48, 30 Dec. 2019 Disponível em: http://periodicoseletronicos.ufma.br/index.php/afluente/article/view/12829. Acesso em: 24 aug. 2024.

Issue

v. 4, n. 14, dez. 2019: Impressionismo e Literatura

Section

Estudos Literários

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