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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... turned saints that you may have forgotten we too had sinned in our time ? ' an appeal that is proleptic of Gentleman Brown's appeal to a common background in his fatal discussion with Jim much later in the novel . And there is , too ...
... turned his head , and something in his eyes checked my modest elation ' ( 64 ) ; ' Ransome's eyes gazed steadily into mine . We exchanged smiles ' ( 65 ) ; ' He turned away from the sideboard with his usual pleasant , quiet gaze ' ( 72 ) ...
... turned upon her with cold ferocity : ' As to objectionable old women , they are first strangled quietly , then cut up into small pieces and thrown away , a bit here and a bit there . They vanish - ' ( 62 ) Conrad's earliest surviving ...
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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