Prescott, Lynda
(2004).
Autobiography as evasion: Joseph Conrad's 'A Personal Record'.
Journal of Modern Literature, 28(1)
pp. 177–188.
Abstract
The article presents the autobiographical context in Joseph Conrad's "A Personal Record." A Personal Record was written and serialized (in the English Review) during 1908-1909. Conrad's changing intentions for this work, and his later additions to it a "Familiar Preface" in 1911 and an "Author's Note" in 1919 reveal something of his anxieties about his reputation as a writer and about his national identity as a Pole who has become a British subject (and writes in English). The slightly cryptic note in his allusion to nationality in the Waliszewski letter modulates, in "A Personal Record," to more subtle forms d of evasiveness, but at this stage in his career the divisions in his sensibility were clearly hard to reconcile.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
Not known |
| ISSN: |
1529-1464 |
| Keywords: |
anxiety; autobiographies; intention; stress; Personal Record |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
6118 |
| Depositing User: |
Lynda Prescott
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| Date Deposited: |
04 Jan 2007 |
| Last Modified: |
27 Jul 2011 15:52 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/6118 |
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