Hugh Epstein, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. With a focus on nature and the environment, Hugh Epstein analyses thirteen of these powerful works in the historical company of contemporary discussions in Victorian science. He takes them beyond their ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modernist’ labels to show how vivid and urgent these novels are for the modern reader.

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Robert C. Evans, (ed.) Critical Insights: Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Salem Press, 2019.

Heart of Darkness has not only inspired but has also provoked heated controversy. Once seen as an attack on the brutalities of European colonialism, it can also be read as a colonialist project in its own right. This volume explores the many dimensions of Conrad's work, looking at it in historical, literary, and cultural contexts, and examining both its artistry and its themes.

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