Joseph Conrad and the adventure tradition: constructing and deconstructing the imperial subject/

Main Author: White, Andrea, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, c1993
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Constructing the imperial subject: nineteenth-century travel writing
  • 2. Adventure fiction: a special case
  • 3. Them and us: a useful andappealing fiction
  • 4. The shift toward subversion: the case of H.Rider Haggard
  • 5. Travel writing and adventure fiction as shapingdiscourses for Conrad
  • 6. Almayer's Folly
  • 7. An Outcast of theIslands
  • 8. The African fictions (I): 'An Outpost of Progress'
  • 9.The African fictions (II): 'Heart of Darkness'