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Sexuality and the erotic in the fiction of Joseph Conrad / Jeremy Hawthorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorn, Jeremy, author.
- Series:
- Continuum literary studies.
- Continuum literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Eroticism in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- 1. Closeted characters and cloistered critics in 'Il Conde', Lord Jim, Victory and The Shadow Line
- 2. The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands and Heart of Darkness
- 3. The erotics of cruelty in 'A Smile of Fortune', 'The Planter of Malata', The Secret Agent, Victory and 'Freya of the Seven Isles'
- 4. Voyeurism in The Shadow-Line and Under Western Eyes
- Conclusion - and?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613122841
- 9781472543189
- 1472543181
- 9781283122849
- 1283122847
- 9781441161383
- 1441161384
- OCLC:
- 727649560
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