This revised Norton Critical Edition represents a complete recasting of the 1968 edition. In accordance with recent scholarship, the preferred first English edition (William Blackwood & Sons, 1900) is now the copy-text. The novel is accompanied by expanded annotations, textual notes (including all variants in the heavily revised magazine version of Lord Jim as well as the book editions published in Conrad's lifetime), and "A Lord Jim Gazetteer and Glossary of Eastern and Nautical Terms."
A wealth of background and source material is included: Conrad's correspondence; a previously unavailable account of Lord Jim's several endings; richly detailed accounts of the novel's historical and literary sources; geographical and topographical studies; six illustrations; and two maps.
The best critical writing on Lord Jim is presented in twelve essays by Hugh Clifford, Albert J. Guerard, lan Watt, Fredric Jameson, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said, Philip M. Weinstein, Paul B. Armstrong, Marianne DeKoven, and Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, among others.
A Selected Bibliography is included.
【目录】
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
The Text of Lord Jim
TEXTUAL HISTORY
TEXTUAL NOTES
A LORD IrM GAZETTEER AND GLOSSARY OF EASTERN AND NAUTICAL TERMS
Backgrounds
Editor's Note on the Composition of Lord Jim
Alexander Janta·[Tuan Jim: A Sketch]
Correspondence Related to Lord Jim
The Division, by Chapters, of the Monthly Instalhnents of Lord Jim: A Sketch in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Ernest W. Sullivan·The Several Endings of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
Sources
Norman Sherry·The Pilgrim-Ship Episode·The Bornean River and Its People
Hans van Marie and Pierre Lefranc·Ashore and Afloat:New Perspectives on Topography and ography in Lord ]ira
Dwight H. Purdy·The Chronology of Lord lira
Pierre Lefranc·Conradian Backgrounds and Contexts for Lord Jim
Criticism
Anonymous·New York Tribune, November 3, 1900
Anonymous·Spectator, November 24, 1900
Hugh Clifford·The Genius of Mr. Joseph Conrad
Albert J. Guerard·Lord Jim
lan Watt·Composition and Sources·The Friendship
Fredric Jameson·[Romance and Reification in Lord Jim]
J. Hillis Miller·Lord Jim: Repetition as Subversion of Organic Form
Edward Said·[The Presentation of Narrative in Lord Jim]
Philip M. Weinstein·"Nothing Can Touch Me": Lord Jim
Paul B. Armstrong·[Monism and Pluralism in Lord Jim]
Marianne De Koven·The Destructive Element: Lord Jim
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan" The Failure of Myth: Lord Jim
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