The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world.
Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals.
In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
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- “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré
Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world.
Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals.
In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own. - reviews
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Harvard historian and multiaward winner Jasanoff argues that, with his parents dead after forced relocations for his father's revolutionary activities and his own sojourns worldwide as a sailor showing him both the oppression wrought by imperialism and the swift changes wrought by technological advances, Joseph Conrad speaks to the turmoil of our day.
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An absorbing biography melds history and literary analysis.Jasanoff (History/Harvard Univ.; Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, 2011, etc.), who has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and the George Washington Book Prize, asserts that the novels of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) "meditate on how to behave in a globalizing world," where characters "confront some critical choice, only to face consequences more far-ranging than they ever imagined." Drawing on Conrad's many works of fiction, memoir, letters, and essays, Jasanoff focuses especially on his most famous novels--The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo--to reveal how he responded to a roiling age plagued by anarchy, revolution, and oppression. His characters "struggle with displacement, alienation, and despair," caused by both external and internal forces. Conrad, Jasanoff reveals, was "perpetually depressed, incorrigibly cynical, alarmingly prejudiced" against Asians and Jews, and beset by childhood experiences that inspired his "fatalistic sense of the world as a realm where, no matter how hard you tried to make your own way, you might never slip the tracks of destiny." As a teenager, he set out alone from his native Poland, then under Russian domination, determined to become a seaman; in 1878, he arrived in cosmopolitan London and began a career in the merchant marine, rising to the rank of captain over the next 20 years. Travels throughout the world fueled his imagination. During voyages to Asia, he "stowed away landscapes, characters, and plots" that inspired "half of everything Conrad ever published." In rich detail, Jasanoff skillfully contextualizes his work within "a chain of historical events" that led to profound social and political change. Heart of Darkness, for example, was "closely pegged" to King Leopold II's ruthless exploitation of the Congo. Jasanoff focuses less on Conrad's family life (his wife and sons are lightly sketched) than on the prescient "global compass" of his literary works. An insightful perspective on Conrad's life and turbulent times.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Harvard historian Jasanoff (Liberty’s Exiles) undertakes a review of Joseph Conrad’s life and work that broadens into an acute, original study of 19th-century European imperialism and an emergent globalized world. Polish-born Conrad (1857–1924) was an accomplished seaman before he turned to writing, having learned English as an adult and picked up on the craft of fiction in part from reading Charles Dickens. He became one of England’s most celebrated authors and prose stylists. Jasanoff’s vivid descriptions of Conrad’s travels enrich this narrative. From the extraction of ivory to the impact of rubber demand, she describes the dreadful Belgian colonial trade that Conrad knew firsthand, having worked briefly on a Congo riverboat, a job that he detested and in which he encountered a “European regime of appalling greed, violence, and hypocrisy” that informed his novels. But Jasanoff’s more anachronistic language, such as a description of her subject as “a dead white man” who was “alarmingly prejudiced” by contemporary standards, gives the impression that she is judging him by today’s very different moral standards. Despite this, Jasanoff’s skillfully written book makes a persuasive case that Conrad was “one of us: a citizen of a global world.” Agent: Andrew Wylie, the Wylie Agency.
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Historian Jasanoff (Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard Univ.; Liberty's Exiles) combines biography, history, and literary study in this work about writer Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and his sources and influences. She examines how he derived the themes of four of his major works--The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo--from his experiences as a sailor and a citizen of the world. These themes dominated Conrad's approach and literary imagination, permitting him to take the experiences that he lived and saw and turn them into literary gold. Recurring themes in his work, such as the futility of nationalist ideals, are based on personal events and real incidences. Progress came with discontents, setbacks, and problems. Jasanoff acknowledges other, more traditional biographies of Conrad and is especially indebted to one by Zdzislaw Najder, owing to its research on Conrad's early life. Her work is profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. VERDICT Highly recommended for all collections and for readers who have a special affection for the life and works of this great novelist. [See Prepub Alert, 5/7/17.]--Morris Hounion, New York City Coll. of Technology, Brooklyn
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Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of... - sortTitle
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