The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

Published twice yearly, with issue in the spring and autumn, The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) is a refereed journal of scholarship devoted to the life and writings of Joseph Conrad. It is the recognized journal of record in the field of Conrad studies. Recent issues have included work on all aspects of Conrad.

The General Editor is Allan H. Simmons, the Contributing Editors Gene M. Moore and J. H. Stape, and the Advisory Editor Owen Knowles.

The journal is included in the cost of membership and sent to all members of The Society. It is available by subscription to libraries. For information on current rates for members/subscribers as well as methods of payment, please see the Membership page.

The Conradian is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, The Year's Work in English Studies , Abstracts in English Studies, and Victorian Studies.

Back issues are available for certain years and may be purchased by contacting The Honorary Secretary. A sample issue (pdf file) is available here.

Conradian SALE: Back Issues

For a limited period of six months (1 November 2009 to 30 April 2010) selected back issues of The Conradian beginning with Volume 17 (1993), with a few selected earlier issues, are on sale at one-third off the normal price. (Postage and packaging is not included.)

For a list of back issues available, prices, and payment methods see either of the two forms provided here for downloading and printing: MS Word Back Issues or PDF Back Issues.

Submissions

The Conradian welcomes submissions on all aspects of the life and writings of Joseph Conrad. Normally, essays vary between 5,000-8,000 words in length, although in exceptional cases where a topic warrants further development the word limit can be increased. Notes are also welcome. The journal reviews only the volumes of the Cambridge Edition of Joseph Conrad. Other volumes of interest are reviewed on this website.

Since the journal publishes only 15-18 full length essays per year and essays are typically solicited after the Annual Conference, a very high standard of scholarship is maintained and only original and significant work can be considered for publication.

Submissions should be sent to The Editor at TheConradian@aol.com as a Windows-based MS Word file. A template is available here and may be altered as desired to make a submission. A brief bio-bibliography will be requested from the writer upon acceptance of a submission. (See the latest issue for models.)

Non-members whose work has been accepted for publication in The Conradian are invited to take out membership to support the Society for the calendar year in which their work appears.

The decision to publish an essay is undertaken by the editorial committee on the advice, if required, of specialists in the wider scholarly community. A decision normally takes approximately six to eight weeks.

Essays are thoroughly edited for style, for consistency with house practices, clarity of argument, and accuracy of citations and references and then returned to the writer for checking and final approval.

The time-lag between acceptance and publication can vary, depending upon the number of essays in hand and whether or not a special issue is scheduled. At present, at least twelve months will usually pass between acceptance and publication.

From time to time, the editors solicit material for special issues. These issues are also published as monographs by Rodopi of Amsterdam. Themed issues are another separate category, with a focus maintained in all (or in the overwhelming number of) contributions.

The Conradian uses a "Works cited" citation format (see the Style Sheet), and writers are requested to submit their work in it. Footnotes are reserved for the expansion of ideas and not for bibliographical information as such. Submissions not conforming to this rubric may be returned to the writer before being considered.

Relevant illustrations (usually black and white) may accompany an essay. Originals should only be submitted once an essay has been accepted, at which time specifications regarding acceptable quality and format (a minimum of 300 dpi for digital images) will be supplied the writer. If maps are required, we can recommend a cartographer and usually can cover expenses; however, providing models to be redrawn are the responsibility of the writer.

Potential contributors should apply The Conradian Style Sheet to their work to expedite processing and editing.

Forthcoming Issues

A special issue commemorating the centenary of the publication of Under Western Eyes, to be co-edited by Jeremy Hawthorn, Allan H. Simmons, and J. H. Stape is planned as the Autumn 2011 issue. The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2011.

The Conradian 35.1 (Spring 2010)

This issue is now closed. The following essays are scheduled to appear in the issue:

• A. M. Purssell: "Where civilization brushes against wild mystery”: “Freya of the Seven Isles,” Conrad, Empire, and the Archive
• Debra Romanick Baldwin: Simple Ideas and Narrative Solidarity in “Prince Roman”
• Richard M. Berrong: "Heart of Darkness" and Pierre Loti's Ramuntcho: Fulcrum for a Masterpiece
• William Atkinson: Mr Kurtz's Good Death
• Cedric Watts: Killing “the Newt”: Kipling’s “Sea Constables” and Conrad’s “The Tale”
• Kaoru Yamamoto: "The Warrior's Soul" and the Question of Community
• Laurence Davies: Conrad’s “Patriotic Charitable” Donation: “An Outpost of Progress” in The Ladysmith Treasury
• Allan H. Simmons: Conrad and the Duke of Sutherland
• Cedric Watts: Jews, Aglae, and Suspense
• J. H. Stape: Father Gobila, I Presume?: Sources for “An Outpost of Progress”

The Conradian 35.2 (Autumn 2010)

The following essays are scheduled to appear in the issue:

• Aaron Zacks: Conrad and the Short Story Collection: Tales of Unrest to A Set of Six
• Gudrun Kauhl: On Certain Problems on Reading Chance
• Andrew J. Francis: "You always leave us – for your own ends": Marriage and Concubinage in Conrad's Asian Fiction
• J. H. Stape: "Setting out for Brussels": Conrad and the "Sepulchral City"
• Allan H. Simmons: Conrad's Revisions in "The Idiots"
• Richard M. Berrong: The Revenge of the Raped Woman: “The Idiots” and Charles Le Goffic’s Le Crucifié de Keraliès
• Mary Burgoyne: "These ignorant and bumptious reviewers": F. J. Furnivall in Defence of Conrad
• Owen Knowles: Glimpses of a Uncollected Letter of 1899: Conrad to Katherine De Friese
• Ashley Chantler: Conrad, Ford, and Romance: A Letter of 1901
• Owen Knowles and J. H. Stape: Four New Conrad Letters, 1902–1917