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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... James Annesley Joyce and Company by David Pierce London Narratives by Lawrence Phillips Masculinity in Fiction and Film by Brian Baker Novels of the Contemporary Extreme edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel Romanticism ...
... James Annesley Joyce and Company by David Pierce London Narratives by Lawrence Phillips Masculinity in Fiction and Film by Brian Baker Novels of the Contemporary Extreme edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel Romanticism ...
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... James and water-skiing?' The response of friends and colleagues to the news that I have been writing a book about the sexual and the erotic in Joseph Conrad's fiction has not generally been that this is a subject crying out to be ...
... James and water-skiing?' The response of friends and colleagues to the news that I have been writing a book about the sexual and the erotic in Joseph Conrad's fiction has not generally been that this is a subject crying out to be ...
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... James's characters, whose intimacies have been personal - with each other. (Woolf 1966, 311) The syntax of the final ... James is mentioned, an aura that is lacking when the characters of the two people who compose Mr Conrad are sketched ...
... James's characters, whose intimacies have been personal - with each other. (Woolf 1966, 311) The syntax of the final ... James is mentioned, an aura that is lacking when the characters of the two people who compose Mr Conrad are sketched ...
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... James, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence and Woolf has been read. Nor is it the way in which the fiction of modernists writing in languages other than English — such as Knut Hamsun and Franz Kafka — has been read. I mentioned above a 'third view ...
... James, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence and Woolf has been read. Nor is it the way in which the fiction of modernists writing in languages other than English — such as Knut Hamsun and Franz Kafka — has been read. I mentioned above a 'third view ...
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... James's novella I side with those who have argued that James constructed his tale in such a way as to make it impossible to decide between these two readings,2 but it seems to me that the dissemination of the knowing reading of 'II ...
... James's novella I side with those who have argued that James constructed his tale in such a way as to make it impossible to decide between these two readings,2 but it seems to me that the dissemination of the knowing reading of 'II ...
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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