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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... keeps his own secrets very close , and appears for a long while to have no intimate friends . Chapter 22 of Bleak House opens with Tulkinghorn alone in his chambers at Lincoln's Inn Fields . He has dined alone and is now enjoying a ...
... keep her place , then it will do . I can't stand women near me . They give me the horrors , ' declared the other . " They are a perfect curse ! ' ( 81 ) While the word ' curse ' here prepares the reader for Jones's satanic intrusion on ...
... keeps his daughter in social and physical seclusion , confined to the house and its suggestively luxuriant walled garden . Looked after by ' an elderly female relative ' ( 38 ) , who serves as her gouvernante , she gleans what she knows ...
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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