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- Heart of Darkness , pp. li - lvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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Biographies and Biographical Materials
Batchelor, John, The Life of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.Google Scholar
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Letters
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, ed. Karl, Frederick R. and Davies, Laurence, with Knowles, Owen, Moore, Gene M. and Stape, J. H.. 9 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1983–2007.Google Scholar
Conrad’s Polish Background: Letters to and from Polish Friends, ed. Najder, Zdzisław. Oxford University Press, 1964.Google Scholar
A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Conrad, ed. Stape, J. H. and Knowles, Owen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
‘My Dear Friend’: Further Letters to and about Joseph Conrad, ed. Knowles, Owen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reference
Donovan, Stephen, compiler, Conrad First. The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive. www.conradfirst.net/conrad/homeGoogle Scholar
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Critical Studies
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On Heart of Darkness
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Firchow, Peter Edgerly, Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000.Google Scholar
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General
Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.Google Scholar
Journals
The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), published twice yearly by the Society at Bariet Publishers, TK Steenwijk (Netherlands).Google Scholar
Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, published thrice yearly at Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas.Google Scholar
L’Époque Conradienne, published once yearly by the Société Conradienne Française et Les Presses Universitaires Limoges, Limoges, France.Google Scholar
Websites
Valuable online links can be found on the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) website (www.josephconradsociety.org) under the headings ‘Student Resources’ (which contains a number of links for teachers and students of Heart of Darkness, including access to a digitized version of the manuscript) and ‘Scholarly Resources’. Particularly helpful links include those to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (http:/beinecke.library.yale.edu), the Modernist Journal Project (www.modjourn.org), the London Gazette for the twentieth century (www.thegazette.co.uk), and overseas newspaper archives. Other links provide access to listings of Conrad’s ships and shipmates during his entire sea career.
Broadview Press’s ‘Heart of Darkness: Online Theory and Criticism’, under the general editorship of John G. Peters (www.broadviewpress.com/heartofdarkness/), offers access to a wide range of critical, theoretical and historical texts relevant to Conrad’s story.