What Was Literary Impressionism?"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel it is, before all, to make you see. That and no more, and it is every thing." So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best known account of literary impressionism, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century movement featuring narratives that paint pictures in readers' minds. If literary impressionism is anything, it is the project to turn prose