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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... Chapter 3 . 3. Cambridge University Press , Professor S.W. Reid and Mrs Barbara M. Harkness , for permission to reproduce a number of extracts from Joseph Conrad , The Secret Agent , Bruce Harkness and S.W. Reid ( eds ) , The Cambridge ...
... Chapter 3 of Chance ( 1913 ) : Captain Anthony is the son of ' a delicate erotic poet of a markedly refined and autocratic temperament ' ( 309 ) . The mention is not without interest , given the link that it suggests between the erotic ...
... Chapter Three of Conrad's first novel Almayer's Folly ( 1895 ) opens with the following sentence : " The deliberations conducted in London have a far reaching importance ; and so , the decision issued from the 8 Sexuality and the Erotic ...
... chapter traces the history of what , I believe , are too ' innocent ' readings of Conrad's fiction , focussing initially on two test - cases , the short story ' Il Conde ' ( 1908 ) and the short novel or novella The Shadow - Line ( 1917 ) ...
... chapter charts patterns of both sadism and masochism in a number of heterosexual relationships that are depicted in Conrad's fiction . My fourth and final chapter explores the important rôle played by a set of linked qualities in ...
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 |