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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... by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy by Simon Swift Women 's Fiction 1945—2005 by Deborah Philips Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad CONTINUUM LITERARY STUDIES SERIES.
... by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy by Simon Swift Women 's Fiction 1945—2005 by Deborah Philips Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad CONTINUUM LITERARY STUDIES SERIES.
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... Conrad's novels have reminded me that however much critics talk about close reading, no-one reads more carefully than a good translator. I thank her for her unfailing support and good humour, and a shared dislike of housework that has ...
... Conrad's novels have reminded me that however much critics talk about close reading, no-one reads more carefully than a good translator. I thank her for her unfailing support and good humour, and a shared dislike of housework that has ...
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... Conrad's second memoir of her husband reports such infidelity (Greene 1969 ... books she published about her husband after his death, Jessie refers to ... Conrad may have been “disturbed by the sexual aspects of marriage'” (2002, 81), and ...
... Conrad's second memoir of her husband reports such infidelity (Greene 1969 ... books she published about her husband after his death, Jessie refers to ... Conrad may have been “disturbed by the sexual aspects of marriage'” (2002, 81), and ...
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... Conrad's letters to her, and from the reports of third parties who observed them together, Robert Lange's assertion ... fiction. Writing about Conrad in 1923, the year before his death, his fellow novelist Virginia Woolf — who was herself a ...
... Conrad's letters to her, and from the reports of third parties who observed them together, Robert Lange's assertion ... fiction. Writing about Conrad in 1923, the year before his death, his fellow novelist Virginia Woolf — who was herself a ...
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... Conrad's fictional (and, doubtless, biographical) world as one devoid of sexual secrets and complex sexualities. Although Conrad is composed of two men, they seem equally lacking so far as a sexual life is ... Fiction of Joseph Conrad.
... Conrad's fictional (and, doubtless, biographical) world as one devoid of sexual secrets and complex sexualities. Although Conrad is composed of two men, they seem equally lacking so far as a sexual life is ... Fiction of Joseph Conrad.
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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