03477nam 22007091 450 991097018760332120121024145827.0978661312284197814725431891472543181978128312284912831228479781441161383144116138410.5040/9781472543189(CKB)2670000000093509(EBL)711053(OCoLC)727649560(SSID)ssj0000525622(PQKBManifestationID)12213781(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525622(PQKBWorkID)10508486(PQKB)11389673(MiAaPQ)EBC711053(Au-PeEL)EBL711053(CaPaEBR)ebr10472185(CaONFJC)MIL312284(OCoLC)1198555256(UtOrBLW)bpp09256740(UtOrBLW)BP9781472543189BC(EXLCZ)99267000000009350920140929d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSexuality and the erotic in the fiction of Joseph Conrad /Jeremy Hawthorn1st ed.London ;New York :Continuum,2007.1 online resource (189 p.)Continuum literary studiesDescription based upon print version of record.9780826495273 0826495273 Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-172) and index.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."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.Continuum literary studies.Eroticism in literatureSex in literatureLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900Eroticism in literature.Sex in literature.823.912Hawthorn Jeremy152147UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910970187603321Sexuality and the erotic in the fiction of Joseph Conrad4340715UNINA