Awarded 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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9781441135094
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2015
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Continuum
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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