Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph ConradAwarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement then this results in bad writing. Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality. He argues that the comprehensiveness of Conrad's vision does not exclude a concern with the sexual and the erotic, and that this concern is not with the sexual and the erotic as separate spheres of human life, but as elements dialectically related to those matters public and political that have always been recognized as central to Conrad's fictional achievement. The book will open Conrad's fiction to readings enriched by the insights of critics and theorists associated with Gender Studies and Post-colonialism. |
From inside the book
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... Conde ' , Lord Jim , The Shadow - Line , and Victory 17 2 The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands and Heart of Darkness 61 3 The erotics of cruelty in ' A Smile of Fortune ' , ' The Planter of Malata ' , The Secret Agent ...
... Conde ' ( 1908 ) and the short novel or novella The Shadow - Line ( 1917 ) , before moving to other works which arguably involve homosexual or homoerotic elements . My second chapter moves back chronologically to Conrad's second ...
... is not , it seems to me , integrated into larger or deeper patterns of exploration in the novel . 1 Closeted Characters and Cloistered Critics in ' Il Conde 16 Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad.
Jeremy Hawthorn. 1 Closeted Characters and Cloistered Critics in ' Il Conde ' , Lord Jim , The Shadow - Line , and Victory Conrad's fiction and the innocent reader : ' Il Conde ' The critical history of Joseph Conrad's tale ' Il Conde ...
... Conde " . According to Hagopian , Wills's account is ' an essay which might be ignored except for the fact that it is the only extended study of this story and has recently been reprinted in a widely used anthology of Conrad criticism ...
Contents
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2 The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands and Heart of Darkness | 61 |
3 The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune The Planter of Malata The Secret Agent Victory and Freya of the Seven Isles ... | 77 |
4 Voyeurism in The ShadowLine and Under Western Eyes | 131 |
Conclusion and? | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 166 |
Index | 173 |