Conrad's Victory and the English Tradition

Authors: Leavis L.R.; Wagenaar D.

Source: Neophilologus, Volume 87, Number 3, July 2003 , pp. 487-499(13)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

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.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Nijmegen, English Department, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Publication date: 2003-07-01