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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... writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. EISBN 9780826495273 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record ...
... writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. EISBN 9780826495273 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record ...
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... writing a book about the sexual and the erotic in Joseph Conrad's fiction has not generally been that this is a ... writer's work is to start off with the conviction that it is not there — or alternatively, that if it is there, it is not ...
... writing a book about the sexual and the erotic in Joseph Conrad's fiction has not generally been that this is a ... writer's work is to start off with the conviction that it is not there — or alternatively, that if it is there, it is not ...
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... writing and posting their wedding announcements up to two o'clock in the morning (1935, 20) does nothing to dispel this view. But what a man thinks before his wedding and on his wedding night does not necessarily fix his attitudes ...
... writing and posting their wedding announcements up to two o'clock in the morning (1935, 20) does nothing to dispel this view. But what a man thinks before his wedding and on his wedding night does not necessarily fix his attitudes ...
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... writing unlike Curle after the death of Jessie Conrad, provides a summarizing view of the Conrads' marriage that, for all that he is not the most reliable of reporters, bears a strong ring of truth. Conrad, although at time unmanageable ...
... writing unlike Curle after the death of Jessie Conrad, provides a summarizing view of the Conrads' marriage that, for all that he is not the most reliable of reporters, bears a strong ring of truth. Conrad, although at time unmanageable ...
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... writers: Ford Madox Ford, Richard Curle, Stephen Crane, and R. B. Cunninghame Graham' (1992, 59) just does not hold water ... Writing about Conrad in 1923, the year before his death, his fellow novelist Virginia Woolf — who was herself a ...
... writers: Ford Madox Ford, Richard Curle, Stephen Crane, and R. B. Cunninghame Graham' (1992, 59) just does not hold water ... Writing about Conrad in 1923, the year before his death, his fellow novelist Virginia Woolf — who was herself a ...
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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11 Conde Aissa Alice Jacobus Alice’s Almayer Arrow of Gold associated attractive Author’s Note captain captain-narrator chapter characters confirms Conrad’s fiction Count Crippen critics depicted elements erotic European exotic face feeling Felicia female femininity fictional figure final find first Freya Haldin Harpham Heart of Darkness Heemskirk heterosexual Heyst hints homosexual impotence innocent involves Islands Jacobus’s James’s Jessie Jim’s Jones Joseph Conrad knowing Lena looking Lord Jim male man’s Marlow masculine masochistic Mauritius murder narrative narrator narrator-captain Nathalie Nostromo novella obsession Outcast Oxford passage passion Planter of Malata Ransome Ransome’s Razumov reader reading relationship Renouard reports Retinger Ricardo sadism and masochism sadistic scene Schomberg Secret Agent seems sense sexual desire Shadow-Line shared ship significant Smile of Fortune sort story suggests symbolic tale teacher of languages Venus in Furs Verloc voyeurism Western Eyes Willems Willems’s Winnie woman women word World’s Classics Edition writhing writing young