“Going Dead Slow”: Joseph Conrad’s Writing the Now, a review of Yael Levin, Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism

Abstract:Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism offers a new way of reading Conrad’s place in modernism, focusing on those moments in his writing that slow down narrative and register experience outside conventional measurements of time and space. The book aligns its reading of Conrad with a critical tradition of French theory and postmodern literary practice, situating itself alongside recent Conrad studies that engage poststructuralist theory at the intersection of narratology, poststructuralism, and disability studies.