Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

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Author: Joseph Conrad

ISBN-10: 0553212141

ISBN-13: 9780553212143

Category: Occupations - Fiction

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Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.

About the SeriesAbout This VolumeIntroduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts3The Complete Text17A Critical History of Heart of Darkness99Reader-Response Criticism and Heart of Darkness115A Reader-Response Perspective: Heart of Darkness and the Politics of Displacement131Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness148A Feminist and Gender Perspective: "Too Beautiful Altogether": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness169Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness185A Deconstructive Perspective: Heart of Darkness Revisited206The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness221A New Historicist Perspective: Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness239Cultural Criticism and Heart of Darkness258A Cultural Perspective: Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?277Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms299About the Contributors313