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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Jeremy Hawthorn. Contents Acknowledgements vi A note on presentation viii Introduction 1 1 Closeted characters and cloistered critics in ' Il Conde ' , Lord Jim , The Shadow - Line , and Victory 17 2 The exotic and the erotic in An ...
... characters , whose intimacies have been personal - with each other . ( Woolf 1966 , 311 ) The syntax of the final sentence is not easy to trace , but one senses immediately an aura of ( among other things ) sexual suggestiveness as soon ...
... characters perform centre - stage while his female ones are present on the periphery or in the wings . There is a widespread view that his romantic and potentially erotic scenes too often slide into the melodramatic , and for modern ...
... characters but also by tracing these characters ' ideological and political commitments , commitments that belong as much to the public sphere as to the private or domestic world . The truth is that it is very difficult to find in ...
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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 |