Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph ConradAwarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement then this results in bad writing. Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality. He argues that the comprehensiveness of Conrad's vision does not exclude a concern with the sexual and the erotic, and that this concern is not with the sexual and the erotic as separate spheres of human life, but as elements dialectically related to those matters public and political that have always been recognized as central to Conrad's fictional achievement. The book will open Conrad's fiction to readings enriched by the insights of critics and theorists associated with Gender Studies and Post-colonialism. |
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... First there is the claim that Conrad the man was about as uninterested in sexuality and the erotic as it is possible for any mature male not technically a eunuch to be, and that this biographical truth is reflected or refracted in ...
... First there is the claim that Conrad the man was about as uninterested in sexuality and the erotic as it is possible for any mature male not technically a eunuch to be, and that this biographical truth is reflected or refracted in ...
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... first of two books she published about her husband after his death, Jessie refers to Conrad's 'strange proposal of marriage', noting that he 'had begun by announcing that he had not very long to live and no intention of having children ...
... first of two books she published about her husband after his death, Jessie refers to Conrad's 'strange proposal of marriage', noting that he 'had begun by announcing that he had not very long to live and no intention of having children ...
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... first-rate story of female sexuality and male impotence — just when his decline was supposedly imminent. Conrad and the erotic Conrad's work is not naturally associated with the 'erotic'. As far as I can ascertain the word itself occurs ...
... first-rate story of female sexuality and male impotence — just when his decline was supposedly imminent. Conrad and the erotic Conrad's work is not naturally associated with the 'erotic'. As far as I can ascertain the word itself occurs ...
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... first novel Almayer's Folly (1895) opens with the following sentence: 'The deliberations conducted in London have a far reaching importance; and so, the decision issued from the fog-veiled offices 8 Sexuality and the Erotic in the ...
... first novel Almayer's Folly (1895) opens with the following sentence: 'The deliberations conducted in London have a far reaching importance; and so, the decision issued from the fog-veiled offices 8 Sexuality and the Erotic in the ...
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... first shoot of that tree bearing now for a mature mankind the flower and the fruit, the infinite gradation in shades and in flavour of our discriminating love. (224) 'Falk' makes continued reference to the survival of the primitive in ...
... first shoot of that tree bearing now for a mature mankind the flower and the fruit, the infinite gradation in shades and in flavour of our discriminating love. (224) 'Falk' makes continued reference to the survival of the primitive in ...
Contents
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2 The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands and Heart of Darkness | 61 |
3 The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune The Planter of Malata The Secret Agent Victory and Freya of the Seven Isles ... | 77 |
4 Voyeurism in The ShadowLine and Under Western Eyes | 131 |
Conclusion and? | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 166 |
Index | 173 |
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