5.10 Udith Dematagoda on Joseph Conrad and the Romanticism of the Lost Cause

On today’s episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast we have Paul Franz, the editor of our journal Literary Imagination, chatting with Udith Dematagoda, whose new article An Idea without a Future: Joseph Conrad and the Romanticism of the Lost Cause is out now in the newest issue of Literary Imagination. We have unlocked the paywall for this article through Labor Day, so everyone will be able to read this piece for free at Project MUSE. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/993964 Udith Dematagoda took his PhD in 2016 from the University of Glasgow and is currently an external researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study in Tokyo. He is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic, editor of Wyndham Lewis's Left Wings Over Europe (OUP, 2025), and serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press's The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent literary publisher Hyperidean Press.