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Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity

By Robert Hampson (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1992
ISBN
978-1-349-22304-6, 978-1-349-22302-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-22302-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (31982262 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 326\334
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Nineteenth-Century Literature;Twentieth-Century Li

Description

Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualised self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self-ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the late fiction probes sexuality and morbid psychology.

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