A selective bibliography of 25 active links for Joseph Conrad, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Artese, Brian. "Speech Was of No Use": Conrad, a New Journalism, and the Critical Abjection of Testimony." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2003
Berry, Robert. "Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky." How Conrad and Dostoevsky combined disparate fictional genres and traditions in their work, particularly the Gothic tradition. "Though the critical establishment has long since labelled both artists as psychological, even political novelists, Conrad and Dostoevsky are also authors of what is usually called 'popular' fiction. Under this broad, notoriously problematic heading, are included such independent genres as 'adventure, thriller and detective writing'; 'romance' literature; and Gothic fiction.' Each of these literary forms, I would argue, can be claimed to exist in Conrad and Dostoevsky's complex fictional worlds." Deep South v.1 n.2 (May, 1995)
Billy, Ted. A review of Ted Billy's A Wilderness of Words: Closure and Disclosure in Conrad's Short Fiction. (1997.) Reviewed by Keith Carabine in The Conradian (removed from http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/journals/98v23an2e.html)
Carabine, Keith, Owen Knowles and Wieslaw Krajka, Eds. A review of Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives: Vol. 1. Conrad's Literary Career (1992) and Vol. 2 Contexts for Conrad (1993). Review by Linda Dryden in The Conradian (removed from http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/journals/98v23an2b.html)
Carabine, Keith. A review of The Life and the Art: A Study of Conrad's "Under Western Eyes." (1996). Reviewed by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan in The Conradian (removed from http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/journals/98v23an2c.html)
Childs, Peter. A substantial introduction to Joseph Conrad, from the Literary Encyclopedia. "Conrad is noted for his complex narratives and formal experiments, especially in terms of point of view and temporal shifts. He is also much studied for his depiction of imperialism and colonialism."
Elbarbary, Samir. "'Heart of Darkness' and late-Victorian fascination with the primitive and the double." Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1993
Erdinast-Vulcan, Dahpna. "'Signifying nothing': Conrad's idiots and the anxiety of modernism." Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1996
Gorra, Michael. "Joseph Conrad," a lengthy article on central importance of Conrad. The Hudson Review, Wntr 2007
Kaplan, Carola M. "Colonizers, Cannibals, and the Horror of Good Intentions in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1997
Kaye, Peter. A review of Peter Kaye's Dostoyevsky and English Modernism: 1900-1930. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999) Reviewed by Keith Carabine in The Conradian.(removed from http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/journals/98v23an2f.html)
Kid, Billy. "Contextualizing and comprehending Joseph Conrad's 'The Return.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996
Krishnan, Sanjay. "Seeing the Animal: Colonial Space and Movement in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Summer 2004
Lackey, Michael. "Moral Conditions for Genocide in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness." College Literature, Wntr 2005
Mencher, Barrie. "Christianity and Criticism: A Reply to Ian Robinson on Conrad's Victory." The New Compass: A Critical Review 3 (June 2004)
Mitchell, Angus. "New Light On The Heart Of Darkness." A historian writes about Joseph Conrad's tale as a reflection of the ugly side of the European scramble for Africa. "Heart of Darkness was the first novel to attack concepts of Western progress and question dubious social Darwinist attitudes that were used to justify many brutal facets of Empire-building." History Today, Dec. 1999 (removed from findarticles.com)
Nüstedt, Holger. Joseph Conrad's "'The End of the Tether,'" in EESE 9/1998
Phillips, Gene D. "To sup on horrors: Christopher Hampton's film version of Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent." Literature Film Quarterly, 1999
Robinson, Ian. "Conrad's Belief in Victory." Writes that "Conrad's great achievements, which I am going to call "comic," depend on his retaining Christian judgement along with Christian language-and the latter for the sake of the former." The New Compass: A Critical Review 2 (December 2003)
Saunders, Max. A review of Max Saunders' Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, Volume I: The World Before the War and Volume II: The After-War World. (1996). Reviewed by Gene M. Moore in The Conradian (removed from http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/journals/98v23an2d.html)
Scannell, James. "The method is unsound: the aesthetic dissonance of colonial justification in Kipling, Conrad, and Greene" [Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene]. Style, Fall, 1996
Wheatley, Alison E. "'A World of Their Own': Subversion of gender expectations in Conrad's plays." Papers on Language and Literature, Wntr 2001
Wiesenfarth, Joseph. "Ford's Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance as metafiction: Or, how Conrad became an Elizabethan poet" [and Ford Maddox Ford] Renascence, Fall 2000
Short (one-paragraph) summaries of recent scholarly books on Joseph Conrad, from the Joseph Conrad Society of North America
Brief reviews of recent scholarly books on Joseph Conrad from the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) web site offers student resources in the form of recommended secondary reading; scholarly resources, including a downloadable A Descriptive Location Register of Joseph Conrad's Literary Manuscripts; brief reviews recent books on Conrad, and more
The Joseph Conrad Society of North America web site has news about upcoming Conrad events, summaries of recent books on Conrad, recommended links, and more
A short biography of Joseph Conrad from the Books and Writers web site at the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
"Joseph Conrad: The Sense of Self." An essay about similarities in Joseph Conrad's three short stories, The Secret Sharer, Heart of Darkness, and The Shadow Line, provides an introduction to the works, noting that all three stories deal with the process of maturing, the loss of youthful illusions, a psychological crisis, and are related from the point of view of a single, solitary narrator. By graduate student Shirley Gallaway
"Heart of Darkness & Apocalypse Now: A comparative analysis of novella and film," by graduate student Patrick Galloway
Production details about the film Apocalypse Now from the Internet Movie Database. "Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence."
A short summary of papers on Joseph Conrad presented at the 1998 annual MLA conference in San Francisco (removed from http://www.english.fsu.edu/JCT/default.htm)
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