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The place names , Naples , Capri , Baiae , Pompeii , and Herculaneum , which in
the narrative are associated with the Count , to the ancient Romans were
suggestive of decadence and immorality . It was here in Naples , the most Greek
of ...
Withdrawing from the throng , the Count shared a little table in front of the café
with a young man of just such a type . Our friend had some lemonade . The
young man was sitting moodily before an empty glass . He looked up once , and
then ...
He never stirred , as though he had fallen asleep there , but when the Count
passed by next time he had changed his attitude . He sat leaning forward . His
elbows were propped on his knees , and his hands were rolling a cigarette . He
never ...
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Contents
Closeted characters and cloistered critics in Il Conde | 17 |
The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands | 61 |
The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune | 77 |
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| Title | Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad Continuum Literary Studies |
| Author | Jeremy Hawthorn |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0826495273, 9780826495273 |
| Length | 190 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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