Conrad and Impressionism.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

Conrad and Impressionism. By JOHN G. PETERS. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+206pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. ISBN 0-521-79173-1.

In his preface to Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924) Ford Madox Ford describes his book as 'the writer's impression of a writer who avowed himself impressionist' (p. 6). Despite Conrad's notorious resistance to attempts to identify him with particular artistic movements or '-isms', his style, which serves to transfer attention from the object perceived to the perceiving consciousness, ...

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