The Strategic Defense Initiative

This volume examines studies of Joseph Conrad's work at the close of his first century and looks ahead at new directions in Conrad scholarship for the 21st century.

The essays pursue biographical, linguistic, formalist, socio-historical and theoretical approaches and comment on a great number of fiction and non-fiction works from Conrad's extensive canon - including the centennial novel "Almayer's Folly" and re-visions of his writings in fiction and film.

New work from established Conrad scholars joins with that of the rising generation to offer a range of perspectives on the breadth of Conrad's culture and art.