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This essay discusses the impressionist remodeling of modernism around the turn of the nineteenth century by litterateurs Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer. There has been a collaboration between Joseph Conrad and Hueffer, which has been otherwise neglected, between 1898 and 1908. It was during these years in which many of Conrad's most well-known works appeared. Hueffer says that it was through their collaboration that a shared "impressionist" aesthetic was evolved. According to Hueffer, impressionism is a reaction to the internal plight of modernity caused by urbanization and by the various technological and social changes that accompany it.