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Sexuality and the erotic in the fiction of Joseph Conrad
- Title
- Sexuality and the erotic in the fiction of Joseph Conrad / Jeremy Hawthorn.
- Author
- Hawthorn, Jeremy.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR6005.O4 Z7427 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 178 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Continuum literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Continuum literary studies
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-172) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780826495273
- 0826495273
- LCCN
- 2007298643
- OCLC
- ocm76798509
- 76798509
- SCSB-14578580
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library