Titlebook: Conrad‘s Reading; Space, Time, Network Helen Chambers Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Book history.History o

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Introduction,-centred’ and introduces an original tripartite investigative strategy to show how spatial, temporal and social changes during in Conrad’s unusual life shaped his own reading practices, and thus informed his writing.

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,‘Read by Chance on the Indian Ocean’: Reconstructing Conrad’s Maritime Reading, and . spaces of reading on board ships, including lighting, are examined. The binary of ‘common’ versus ‘elite’ reader challenged in relation to Conrad’s own reading The depictions of material texts, here periodicals, in several of Conrad’s fictional works reveal their distribution to seaports and the colonial periphery.

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,‘Gifted with Tenderness and Intelligence’: Conrad’s Reading Women,ddle-brow reader. Conrad’s own reading of women authors is compared with data on his male peers. The representations of woman readers in . and . is followed by an examination of women readers in . highlighting women’s magazines, access to libraries, women as reader-companions, and books as social props.

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Conclusion,ction and his life. This study creates a new template, not only for examining the reading practices of itinerant and travelling, often multilingual readers such as Conrad, but also of other canonical writers of his period.

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Comparison, Analogies and Generalisation,. This chapter touches lightly on the concept of ‘distant reading’ to consider whether Marlow is not only an unreliable narrator but an ‘unreliable reader’. The chapter ends by considering the extent to which Conrad’s own maritime reading spaces, like those of Marlow, resonated into his shore life in his various homes.

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,‘Books Are an Integral Part of One’s Life’: Evaluating the Evidence of Conrad’s Reading,d and adolescent reading in Poland. The reading which went unrecorded because he was too deeply engaged in a text, reading which had a profound impact on his creative life, is examined. Finally, a critical examination of Conrad’s personal library highlights the gap between ownership of books and evidence of reading.

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