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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... Western Eyes Conclusion - and ? Notes Bibliography Index 77 131 153 159 166 173 Acknowledgements The author and publisher thank the following for permission Contents.
... Western Eyes ( p . 147 ) and The Shadow - Line ( p . 132 ) . 2. Editions Rodopi BV , Amsterdam , for permission to reproduce in amended form the article ' Conrad and the Erotic : " A Smile of Fortune " and " The Planter of Malata ...
... Western Eyes ' ( 2005 ) , Carola M. Kaplan asserts a powerful and convincing counter - case to the prevailing orthodoxy . Arguing that " [ t ] he time has come to counter the myth of Conrad's misogyny ' she rejects the notion that ...
... Western Eyes . One of the simpler tasks that I have set myself in the pages that follow is just that of establishing how pervasive - how near - universal – the sexual and the erotic are in the pages of Conrad's fiction . > There is what ...
... Western Eyes - I never have a sense that there is a confusion of the element of sexual energy with public and political themes . On the contrary : I detect a deliberate recognition of similarities and connections between the private ...
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 |