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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... Lord Jim, The Shadow-Line, and Victory 17 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 ...
... Lord Jim, The Shadow-Line, and Victory 17 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 ...
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... Lord Jim, and Nostromo'. It also 'dominates the later period, where it is central to six of the seven novels' (3—4). Moser concludes that the 'sympathetic treatment of love between a white man and a woman is not congenial to the early ...
... Lord Jim, and Nostromo'. It also 'dominates the later period, where it is central to six of the seven novels' (3—4). Moser concludes that the 'sympathetic treatment of love between a white man and a woman is not congenial to the early ...
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... Jim and Jewel in Lord Jim), Conrad displays no such interest. It is, doubtless, partly because it has been assumed that 'the erotic side of life', as Najder puts it, was closed to Conrad the man, that his fiction has been read with the ...
... Jim and Jewel in Lord Jim), Conrad displays no such interest. It is, doubtless, partly because it has been assumed that 'the erotic side of life', as Najder puts it, was closed to Conrad the man, that his fiction has been read with the ...
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... Lord Jim, the captain-narrator of 'The Secret Sharer', and the teacher of languages in Under Western Eyes. One of the simpler tasks that I have set myself in the pages that follow is just that of establishing how pervasive — how near ...
... Lord Jim, the captain-narrator of 'The Secret Sharer', and the teacher of languages in Under Western Eyes. One of the simpler tasks that I have set myself in the pages that follow is just that of establishing how pervasive — how near ...
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... Lord Jim — Conrad makes 'mistakes' by failing to perform the kind of 'screening' that is performed more or less effortlessly by native speakers. (176) From Harpham's perspective, then, sexuality emerges in Conrad's fiction in spite of ...
... Lord Jim — Conrad makes 'mistakes' by failing to perform the kind of 'screening' that is performed more or less effortlessly by native speakers. (176) From Harpham's perspective, then, sexuality emerges in Conrad's fiction in spite of ...
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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