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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... contempt for his way of living ' ( 1941 , 103 ) . According to Richard J. Ruppel , the ' Cleveland Street Affair ' ( 1889–90 ) and especially the trials of Oscar Wilde ( 1895 ) , ' had an enormous influence on the development of the ...
... contempt , and deep pleasure , as if it were a secret vice bound to end in my undoing , like the habit of some drug or other which ruins and degrades its slave . ( 62 ) What is it about his desire that he associates with ' dread , self ...
... contempt has evaporated and the captain has to face Alice as a sexual equal , his desire evaporates : ' That was all ... contemptuous or afraid of him , she no longer provokes sexual excitement in him . The Crippen case involved not ...
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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