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Conrad and masculinity

Title: Conrad and masculinity / Andrew Michael Roberts.
Author: Roberts, Andrew Michael.
Publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Description

xi, 250 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The fiction of Joseph Conrad is shaped by late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century constructions of masculinity, yet it also calls those constructions into question by revealing fractures and contradictions in conceptions of the 'masculine' and the 'feminine'. Drawing on feminisim, gay studies, film theory, literary theory and cultural history, Andrew Roberts analyses the role of masculinity in all of the Conrad's better-known novels, as well as some of his shorter works and lesser-known texts." "Each pair of chapters relates masculinity to a major historical, aesthetic or cultural category: imperialism and 'race'; the body; the problems of truth and knowledge within modernity; the aesthetics and politics of the visual. Rather than attacking or defending Conrad, the author reads both with and against the grain of the fiction, arguing that the important question is not 'was Conrad sexist?' but 'how do we read Conrad now, so as to learn from differences and continuities in the understanding of the masculine?'"--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.

Contents

Masculinity, 'Race' and Empire: Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands -- Imperialism and Male Bonds: 'Karain', The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Lord Jim -- Masculinity and the Body: Typhoon, The Secret Agent -- Gender and the Disciplined Body: Nostromo -- Epistemology, Modernity and Masculinity: 'Heart of Darkness' -- Masculinity, 'Woman' and Truth: The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Chance -- Vision, Power and Homosocial Exchange: The Arrow of Gold -- Vision and the Economies of Empire and Masculinity: Victory.

ISBN

0333662857
9780333662854
0312227825
9780312227821

LCCN

99042654

OCLC

ocm41991461
41991461
SCSB-14578390

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Princeton University Library