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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... 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 . A Note on Presentation Conrad is very fond of ellipses Acknowledgements vii.
... shared by Conrad himself . While many commentators have been rather too hasty in drawing the conclusion that ' the erotic side of life ' , as Najder terms it , was entirely closed to Conrad , sometimes the haste goes in the opposite ...
... shared if indirect relationship to the detective story . If the longer work announces this relationship through its use of the conventional elements of the genre ( crime , detective , solution ) , the tale's relationship to the popular ...
... shared a little table in front of the café with a young man of just such a type . Our friend had some lemonade . The young man was sitting moodily before an empty glass . He looked up once , and then looked down again . He also tilted ...
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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 |