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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Page 15
... novella The Shadow-Line (1917), before moving to other works which arguably involve homosexual or homoerotic elements. My second chapter moves back chronologically to Conrad's second published novel An Introduction 15.
... novella The Shadow-Line (1917), before moving to other works which arguably involve homosexual or homoerotic elements. My second chapter moves back chronologically to Conrad's second published novel An Introduction 15.
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... 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 Conde' has ...
... 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 Conde' has ...
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... that in the case of 'II Conde' the knowing reading involves an unambiguous attribution of homosexual behaviour to the Count, whereas in the case of James's novella 24 Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad.
... that in the case of 'II Conde' the knowing reading involves an unambiguous attribution of homosexual behaviour to the Count, whereas in the case of James's novella 24 Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad.
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Jeremy Hawthorn. to the Count, whereas in the case of James's novella the tabooed forms of sexuality are (deliberately) not defined by James. The fact that the reader of Conrad's tale must consider the possibility of the Count's ...
Jeremy Hawthorn. to the Count, whereas in the case of James's novella the tabooed forms of sexuality are (deliberately) not defined by James. The fact that the reader of Conrad's tale must consider the possibility of the Count's ...
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... novella The Shadow-Line. Early in this work, the narrator — unemployed now after signing off his ship — is talking to Captain Giles after tiffin in the Officers' Sailors' Home about a fellow-guest who is clearly suffering from a very ...
... novella The Shadow-Line. Early in this work, the narrator — unemployed now after signing off his ship — is talking to Captain Giles after tiffin in the Officers' Sailors' Home about a fellow-guest who is clearly suffering from a very ...
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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