The text is the authoritative version used in the Collected Works published in 1921, which Conrad prepared from a 1910 reprint of the original English version of 1898. Corrections and emendations have been made on the basis of a thorough collation of all extant versions of the novel. The text is annotated and is followed by a detailed textual appendix consisting of materials on the textual history and present text, a list of textual variants, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations showing details essential to an understanding of the novel, and an essay written especially for this Norton Critical Edition by Denis Murphy, explaining the seamanship used during the storm in Chapter Three.
An unusually full selection of background and source materials begins with Conrad's "Preface," which originally appeared as an afterword in the fifth magazine installment of the novel but was suppressed in the early book editions. The "Preface" is accompanied by a textual history and textual notes prepared by Thomas Lavoie and a critical essay by Ian Watt. Also provided are Conrad's preface "To My American Readers" (1914), extracts from letters and essays in which Conrad comments on the ship and the story, and biographical pieces by Edward Garnett (Conrad's informal literary agent and advisor) and G. Jean-Aubry (his first formal biographer). The section closes with an essay by Gerald Morgan, written for this Norton Critical Edition, about the actual ship Narcissus and Conrad's connection with her.
A selection of contemporary reviews is followed by critical essays (some written especially for this Norton Critical Edition) by Albert Guerard, Ian Watt, Norris W. Yates, Gerald Morgan, Donald T. Torchiana, John E. Saveson, Sanford Pinsker, Robert Foulke, William W. Bonney, John Howard Weston, Paul Wiley, and Eugene B. Redmond.
【目录】
Preface
The Text of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Textual Appendix
Textual History
Present Text
Textual Notes
Glossary of Nautical Terms
Illustrations
Dennis Murphy·Seamanship in Chapter Three of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Backgrounds and Sources
Joseph Conrad·Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Thomas Lavoie·Textual History and Textual Notes: The "Preface"
Ian Watt·Conrad's Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Joseph Conrad·To My Readers in America
Edward Gamett·Letters from Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad·From His Correspondence
To T. Fisher Unwin, October 10 1896
To Edward Gamett, October-November 1896
To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, November 21, 1896
To Edward Garnett, November-December 1896
To T. Fisher Unwin, December 13, 1896
To Edward Garnett, December 1896-January 1897
To Helen Watson, January 27,1897
To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, January 27, 1897
To Edward Garnett, February-March 1897
To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, May 19, 1897
To Edward Garnett, May-June 1897
To Helen Watson, June 27, 1897
To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, August 9, 1897
To Edward Garnett, August-November 1897
To Mrs. Richard Garnett, November 4, 1897
To Stephen Crane, November 1897
To Edward Garnett, December 5, 1897
To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, December 6-20, 1897
From W. H. Chesson, January 13, 1898
To W. H. Chesson, January 16, 1898
To Henry Seidel Canby, April 7, 1924
Joseph Conrad·Stephen Crane
Joseph Conrad·[The Ship and the Sea]
Joseph Conrad·A Familiar Preface
G. Jean-Aubry·[Conrad on the Narcissus]
Gerald Morgan·The Book of the Ship Narcissus
Reviews and Criticism
Contemporary Reviews
From the Daily Mail, December 7, 1897
From the Daily Telegraph, December 8, 1897
From the Glasgow Herald, December 9, 1897
From the Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1897
From the Spectator, December 25, 1897
Criticism
Albert Guerard·The Nigger of the "Narc/ssus"
Ian Watt·Conrad Criticism and The Nigger of the "Narc/ssus"
Norris W. Yates·Social Comment jn The Nigger of the "Narcissus'"
Gerald Morgan·Narcissus Afloat
Donald T. Torehiana·The Nigger of the "Nare/ssus": Myth, Mirror, and Metropolis
John E. Saveson·Contemporary Psychology in The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Sanford Pinsker·Selective Memory, Leisure, and the Language of Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
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