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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... looking at during a revolution . The rouge and pearl powder fall off , together with that passive attitude towards the outer world which education , tradition , custom impose upon them from the earliest infancy ' ( 234 ) . There is also ...
... looking at the content of newspapers to which he had access on the island at this time . I do not move through Conrad's fiction chronologically . My first chapter traces the history of what , I believe , are too ' innocent ' readings of ...
... looking young Italian men , and he renders himself vulnerable to the ' outrage ' he experiences by attempting to pick one up - the young man who robs him . — The longer and more developed of these two accounts Douglas A. Hughes's ...
... latter's address to the former ' over the celebrated Resting Hermes which we had been looking at side by side ' would have been enough to awaken the suspicions of readers : as I Closeted Characters and Cloistered Critics 25.
... looking at the statue , then we should not take at face value his claim that he is not interested in the young man who resembles this statue and who is occupying the table at which he chooses to sit . Once we start to examine the story ...
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 |