Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity 1st Edition by Peter Mallios (PDF)

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Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America’s conception of itself and its place in the world. Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that made Conrad’s work valuable to a range of prominent figures—including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt—and explores regional differences in Conrad’s reception. He proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer’s apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial.

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⭐An astonishing and illuminating historical and literary study showing how one author was received by, and in turn shaped, the American culture of his time. Mallios manages this historical sweep while remaining sensitive to the nuances of Conrad’s art. This book is a classic.

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