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Stephen Donovan. Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture.(Book review)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20070322
Author:Dryden, Linda

Stephen Donovan. Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005. 236 pp., with illustrations, notes and index. ISBN 1-4039-0810-9

The introduction to Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture begins with Conrad's claim in 1897 that he was not a popular author and probably never would be. Given his apparent disdain for the popularity achieved by Robert Louis Stevenson, and in the light of his aversion to Rider Haggard's popular romances, for example, it could be assumed that Conrad never courted popularity. A close reading of his letters, of course, reveals that to ...

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