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. Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad Also available in the series Active Reading by Ben Knights Half-title.
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... Reading and writhing : the exotic and the erotic in Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands ' , published in Charles Armstrong and Øyunn Hestetunn ( eds ) , Postcolonial Dislocations : Travel , History , and the Ironies of Narrative ...
... reading , no - one reads more carefully than a good translator . I thank her for her unfailing support and good humour , and a shared dislike of housework that has left space for more pleasurable and useful occupations for both of us ...
... readers few things are less erotic than melodrama . We can summarize another commonly held view of Conrad's fiction ... reader . Sometimes they are combined with conventionalized or clichéd depictions of the ' exotic ' as in An Outcast ...
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 |