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Focusing on the intersection of book history and literary research, this work explores the reading experiences of a renowned writer through a three-part approach. It reconstructs the author's two decades of maritime and shore-based reading, linking it to his famous narrator Marlow's practices. The study delves into his connections with male friends and literate multilingual women, contextualized within Edwardian reading habits. Additionally, it examines fictional representations of reading, including genre trends and therapeutic uses, making it valuable for both Conrad scholars and reading historians.

Brings to light unsuspectedly rich sources of humor in the works of prominent nineteenth-century women writers.

Wide-ranging survey of the criticism devoted to Theodor Fontane, with particular emphasis on more recent theoretical trends.This study of the literary scholarship on Fontane's narrative works is the first to present a systematic review of the ever-growing body of criticism on Germany's major realist novelist. Significant developments in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present day. The author places special emphasis on scholarship since 1980, analysing the influence of new literary critical trends in this period; she also considers the effect upon traditional literary criticism of feminism, psychoanalysis, and comparatist approaches, and the fresh developments in reception history, translation, and media studies.

As a socialist monarchist, Jewish Catholic, skeptical mystic, and humorous sage, Roth has never fitted neatly into any one literary or historical category. The essays in this volume, devoted to the Austrian writer Joseph Roth on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death in Paris in 1939, take a fresh look at his apparent contradictions and demonstrate his contemporary relevance as an acute analyst of the relationship between private life and political change.