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• W878627951 abstract "Conrad and History Richard Niland Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010 228 pp.In an early congratulatory review of Conrad's work anonymous reviewer found a single literary allusion, not a single evidence of [Conrad's] indebtedness to any other author Athenaeum 18 July 1896). It seems as though readers of Conrad have been doing little else ever since. In fact, in Conrad and History, Richard Niland shows how Conrad's claim that the romantic feeling of reality was in me an inborn faculty Within Tides, Note) wasn't exactly inborn, but greatly influenced by European historical, literary, and philosophical debates and concerns of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.He was never one of us exactly. But while Virginia Woolf famously spoke, in an obituary, of our guest having departed, what contribution that foreignness might have made to his gift was not initially on view. Even after Gustav Morf 's Heritage of Joseph Conrad was published in 1930, a full-length work that examined Conrad's work in a context, F.R. Leavis still placed Conrad among English masters (qtd. in Niland 192). However, more recently, there have been many studies of linguistic and literary influences on Conrad's work, most importantly Zdzislaw Najder's and Andrez Busza's. But here Niland places Conrad's work in more specific context of historiography, a particular gap he finds in Conrad studies. Polish Romantic historicism, treatment of philosophy of history by patriotic writers that flourished in 1830s and 40s, is essential to an understanding of Conrad's writing, he argues (4). He takes Najder's and Busza's work as his starting position but deepens and widens those earlier claims. Niland announces his project as an examination of the origins and development of Conrad's long engagement with history and its fictional representation, exploring Conrad's life and work - his stories, novels, autobiographical writings, essays, letters, and Author's Notes - in context of British and European history and philosophy of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (4).This study moves chronologically through Conrad's life to demonstrate shaping influence of contemporary thought. Chapter by chapter, Niland gathers up strands of increasingly multiple influences as Conrad settles in England and reads more widely and deeply in both English and French as well as Polish. He makes interesting assertion that Conrad's late focus on Napoleon invites a circular interpretation to his life and career, Conrad's last works bearing pressure of concerns that dominated his youth and then contemporary interest in Second Empire. While there is nothing particularly novel about noticing tension in Conrad's works between Romanticism and Positivism that skeptically questions Romanticism, a clash Conrad inherited from culture and historiography, he contends - Niland brings to Conrad studies understanding of historic sources of both and how ongoing duality informed his views on and writing about history.In his first chapter, Youth, Poland, and Romantic Past, Niland demonstrates shaping influence of Conrad's early reading of such Romantics as August Cieszkowki and claims that the central text of Romantic philosophy was Cieszkowski's Prolegomena zur Historiosophie, published in 1838. Niland writes of its relationship to literature of Romantic poets, informed as it is by Messianism and writer's obligation to rescue and enshrine heroic past. He finds in Conrad's writing problematic but powerful shaping influence of Hegel's thoughts about history and of Romantic historiography, urging artist to remember inexorable as a way of understanding present and as a guide to future. Here he reads in Conrad's many essays that stretch from Mirror of Sea (1906) to The Crime of Partition (1918), Conrad's conviction that it was role of literature to keep spirit of (national) past alive. …" @default.
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