Description:
The essays in this collection examine Conrad's engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology - maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication - speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages.
Brief description: Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of 'Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance' (2010) and the co-editor of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 'Conrad and Language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and 'Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts' (2009). She is general editor of the journal 'English'.
Review Quotes: ...in its variety, intelligence, and its representative quality, this is a collection to be recommended to any Conrad scholar.--Hugh Epstein, Joseph Conrad Society (UK) "The Conradian 42:1"