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. |
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... Jessie's health would have condemned him to long years of celibacy or semicelibacy . However , not only Retinger's and Borys's veiled hints and Ford's romanticized gossip counsel skepticism . [ ... ] Along with the fact that Conrad felt ...
... Jessie's memoirs that Conrad was " unfaithful to her [ Jessie ] in his old age " ( 71 ) . However Greene's review does not offer any independent evidence for such unfaithfulness ; it merely asserts that Jessie Conrad's second memoir of ...
Jeremy Hawthorn. The evidence is to be found both in Conrad's letters to Jessie and also in the accounts of their relationship provided by others . Jósef Retinger , writing unlike Curle after the death of Jessie Conrad , provides a ...
... Jessie's two memoirs of her husband , from Conrad's letters to her , and from the reports of third parties who observed them together , Robert Lange's assertion that the ' special kind of affection ' that Conrad ' sought and could use ...
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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 |