Joseph Conrad & Adventure Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction the Imperial Subject - Brossura

White, Andrea

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ISBN 10: 0521060761 ISBN 13: 9780521060769

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between 'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea White's study opens with an examination of popular exploration literature in relation to later adventure stories, showing how a shared view of the white man in the tropics authorized the European intrusion into other lands. She then sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad in fact demythologized and disrupted the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing, by simultaneously - with the modernist's double vision - admiring man's capacity to dream but applauding the desire to condemn many of its consequences. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of evaluating the experience of empire.

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"...a useful contribution to the field." Jil Larson, Victorian Studies

"All in all, White's study is clearly written, modestly argued, and genuinely helpful in giving substance to generalizations often made about Conrad's fiction." David Leon Higon, English Literature in Transition

Descrizione del libro:

Dr White contrasts Conrad's fiction with earlier writing (travel accounts and adventure stories) on the subject of empire, showing how the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of evaluating the experience of empire.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521060761
• ISBN 13: 9780521060769
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 248