The Brotherhood of the Sea: The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Lord Jim

In his ‘personal remembrance’ of Conrad, Ford suggested how Conrad’s boyhood reading of Marryat’s novels about ‘the frigate warfare of Napoleonic times’ had shaped his response to his own career in the merchant navy: In the seventies and eighties of last century Conrad by dint of experience found in that service…the tradition of Marryat’s frigates. It was fidelity to an ideal, the ideal of the British merchant service. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.