Conrad's Victory and the English Tradition

The article is divided into two complementary parts. The first one shows how Conrad in Victory not only creatively drew on material and concepts from diverse English writers such as H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens, but also that he was affected by a quintessentially English 19th centur...

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Published in:Neophilologus 2003-07, Vol.87 (3), p.487
Main Authors: Leavis, L R, Wagenaar, Detlef
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
English language
English literature
Language history
Novels
Philosophy
Wells, H G (1866-1946)
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Summary:The article is divided into two complementary parts. The first one shows how Conrad in Victory not only creatively drew on material and concepts from diverse English writers such as H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens, but also that he was affected by a quintessentially English 19th century Romantic line of `emotional anti-materialism' that came from Wordsworth to influence the classic English novel of that century. The second part continues by examining the link between J. S. Mill's Autobiography (a bi-product of this Wordsworthian influence), Hard Times, and Conrad's novel, and by explaining how Conrad diagnosed and refuted Heyst Senior's brand of Schopenhauer's fatalistic philosophy.
ISSN:0028-2677
1572-8668
DOI:10.1023/A:1023923500842