Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph ConradAwarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 |
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... Alice Jacobus . ( According to the captain's informant , the eldest brother of one of the old French families , ' She must be over eighteen now ' [ 38 ] ) . Alice is the illegitimate daughter of the merchant and ship's chandler Alfred ...
... Alice Jacobus inspires in the captain and that he finds so erotically enslaving . Alice Shaw did not belong to one of these families , and research has uncovered the fact that her father , a shipping agent , owned the island's only rose ...
... Alice Jacobus rises from her chair with ' an easy , indolent , and in its indolence supple , feline movement ' ( 68 ) . The narrator - captain , meanwhile , finds that his obsession with Alice Jacobus ' was like being the slave of some ...
Contents
Lord Jim The ShadowLine and Victory | 17 |
The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands | 61 |
The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune | 77 |
Copyright | |
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