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Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition

Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052141606X
ISBN13: 9780521416061
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 18 1993
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire served to promote, celebrate, and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between us and them, colonizer and colonized. Andrea White's study examines popular travel literature in relation to later adventure stories, and sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad demythologized the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, more critical means of evaluating the experience of empire.

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