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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... Cataloging - in - Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Typeset by the author Contents Acknowledgements vi A note on presentation viii Introduction 1 Continuum Copyright.
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 ...
... support and good humour , and a shared dislike of housework that has left space for more pleasurable and useful occupations for both of us . A Note on Presentation Conrad is very fond of ellipses Acknowledgements vii.
... presentation without alteration . In works such as Heart of Darkness where the bulk of the narrative is ostensibly delivered orally by a personified narrator to a group of listeners , standard editions indicate this by placing a ...
... presented with a form of pseudo - logical reasoning along the following lines : • Conrad's fiction is , essentially , about men and the world of men ; · • Conrad is not homosexual and he does not write about homosexual desire ...
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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 |