About the Author

Dr Hugh Epstein is a retired college lecturer and the current Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society. His most recent publications include Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Critical Introduction and Notes for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, (C.U.P., commissioned and forthcoming), 'Conrad and Nature, 1900-1904', in Conrad and Nature, (Routledge, 2018), and 'A Transmissive Medium: Atmosphere in Hardy's Novels', The Thomas Hardy Journal XXXII (Autumn 2016), 11-28.