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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... death , Jessie refers to Conrad's ' strange proposal of marriage ' , noting that he ' had begun by announcing that he had not very long to live and no intention of having children ; but such as his life was ( his shrug was very ...
... death of Jessie Conrad , provides a summarizing view of the Conrads ' marriage that , for all that he is not the most reliable of reporters , bears a strong ring of truth . Conrad , although at time unmanageable in his behaviour towards ...
... death , his fellow novelist Virginia Woolf - who was herself a great admirer of Conrad's fiction - famously had ' Penelope ' ( one of the two fictional discutants in her ' Mr Conrad : a conversation ' ) , claim that ' [ Conrad ] is ...
... death in the bosom of the sea . Their elegy is Milton's ' Nothing is here to wail ... nothing but what may quiet us in a death so noble ' - an elegy which you could never possibly speak over the body of any of Henry James's characters ...
... death , Conrad , as Susan Jones points out in her Conrad and Women , has often been thought of as a writer whose male characters perform centre - stage while his female ones are present on the periphery or in the wings . There is a ...
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 |