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Sexuality and the erotic in the fiction of Joseph Conrad

Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality. The book will open Conrad's fiction to readings enriched by the insights of critics and theorists associated with gender studies and post-colonialism
eBook, English, 2007
Continuum, London, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 178 pages)
9781441161383, 9781283122849, 9781472543189, 9786613122841, 9781441135094, 1441161384, 1283122847, 1472543181, 661312284X, 144113509X
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Introduction; 1. Closeted characters and cloistered critics in II Conde, Lord Jim, Victory and The Shadow Line; 2. The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands; 3. The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Agent and Victory; 4. Voyeurism in Under Western Eyes and the Shadow-Line; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English