Conrad and Intellectual Movements
Niland, Richard; Simmons, Allan H., ed. (2009) Conrad and Intellectual Movements. In: Joseph Conrad in Context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 163-170. ISBN 0521887922 (http://www.cambridge.org/9780521887922)
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Abstract
In The Historical Novel (1937), Georg Lukács wrote that Walter Scott 'had no knowledge of Hegel's philosophy and had he come across it would probably not have understood a word' (Lukács, p. 30). Conversely, Conrad's fiction incorporated a wealth of historical, philosophical, and aesthetic ideas resulting from the writer's overt dialogue with nineteenth-century European thought. The philosophy of Rousseau, Herder, Hegel, the Polish Romantics and Positivists, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Bergson represents the intellectual backdrop to Conrad's explorations of individual and communal identity.
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 18853 Dates: DateEventSeptember 2009PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > English literature Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Mrs Tereza McLaughlin-Vanova Date deposited: 11 May 2010 15:14 Last modified: 11 Apr 2024 00:04 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/18853