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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... associated with the ' erotic ' . As far as I can ascertain the word itself occurs only once in his writings , in Part Two , Chapter 3 of Chance ( 1913 ) : Captain Anthony is the son of ' a delicate erotic poet of a markedly refined and ...
... associated with various forms of tabooed or illicit sexuality – in Conrad's fiction . In his The Deceptive Text : An Introduction to Covert Plots ( 1984 ) , Cedric Watts suggested that many of Conrad's fictions contain what he terms a ...
... associated with the Count , to the ancient Romans were suggestive of decadence and immorality . It was here in Naples , the most Greek of Roman cities , that the citizens of Rome ventured to indulge their senses and lusts . For example ...
... associated his works with illicit or ' perverted ' sexuality . Had ' Il Conde ' been published as one of Henry James's stories the knowing reading of the tale would surely been advanced rather earlier than 1975. The tale's opening scene ...
... associated with mobility as the guide of souls to the underworld and as the patron god of travelers and thieves . ( 204-5 ) Billy also draws attention to the way in which the ' young Cavaliere also unconsciously apes the pose of Resting ...
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 |