This book challenges the traditional image of Joseph Conrad as writer of the sea, a man in a man's world. It re-establishes the importance of significant women in his life, and his engagement with women's writing. Rethinking received views of Conrad as a modernist writer, it also explores the experimentation of his later, less familiar works, first published in the women's pages of popular journals.

• Editorial Note


• Introduction


• 1: Conrad, Women, and the Critics


• 2: Woman as Hero: Conrad and the Polish Romantic Tradition


• 3: Conrad and Marguerite Poradowska


• 4: Chance: 'a fine adventure'


• 5: The Three Texts of Chance


• 6: Marketing for Women Readers


• 7: Visuality and Gender in Late Conrad


• 8: Suspense and the Novel of Sensation


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index