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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... 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 ' 4 Voyeurism in The Shadow - Line and Under ...
... Outcast of the Islands ' , published in Charles Armstrong and Øyunn Hestetunn ( eds ) , Postcolonial Dislocations : Travel , History , and the Ironies of Narrative . Oslo : Novus Forlag , 2006 . I owe warm thanks to John Stape , Jakob ...
... Outcast of the Islands or ' The Lagoon ' . At other times they occur ' offstage ' , recalled only through signs and tokens as in the glimpse of Hollis's mementoes in ' Karain ' . Alternatively they may be presented in distanced , even ...
... Outcast of the Islands , and Renouard in ' The Planter of Malata ' , or merely hinted at by the narrative and only half - recognized by the character as for example with the Marlow of Lord Jim , the captain - narrator of ' The Secret ...
... Outcast of the Islands and The Rescue the passionate and erotic desires of the characters are inseparable from – are indeed partly the product of – realities of class , race , and empire . In Nostromo the sterility of the Gould's ...
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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 |