About the Author

Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of 'Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance' (2010) and the co-editor of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 'Conrad and Language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and 'Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts' (2009). She is general editor of the journal 'English'.

Robert Hampson is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Joseph Conrad (2020), Conrad's Secrets (2012), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction (2000) and Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992). He is co-editor of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad (2022), Conrad and Language (EUP, 2016), Ford Madox Ford's Modernity (2003), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-Appraisal (2002), and Conrad and Theory (1998). He is Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), co-editor of The Conradian and on the editorial board of Conradiana and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad.