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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"...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
"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
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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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In 1891, the year after Kipling returned from India to London, Joseph Conrad spent most of his time in hospital recovering from the Congo. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperial endeavor, adventure fiction, sheer pluck, imperial subject, civilizing work, imperial outposts, adventure heroes, genre expectations, imperial discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Almayer's Folly, Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, King Solomon's Mines, Last Essays, Joseph Conrad, South Seas, Rajah Brooke, The Black Mate, Treasure Island, David Livingstone, Martin Rattler, Masterman Ready, Peter Simple, Sir John Franklin, Black Ivory, Andrew Lang, James Brooke, Outpost of Progress, Personal Record, Rajah Laut, Under Drake's Flag, Captain Good, Fisher Unwin, Malay Archipelago New!
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In 1891, the year after Kipling returned from India to London, Joseph Conrad spent most of his time in hospital recovering from the Congo. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperial endeavor, adventure fiction, sheer pluck, imperial subject, civilizing work, imperial outposts, adventure heroes, genre expectations, imperial discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Almayer's Folly, Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, King Solomon's Mines, Last Essays, Joseph Conrad, South Seas, Rajah Brooke, The Black Mate, Treasure Island, David Livingstone, Martin Rattler, Masterman Ready, Peter Simple, Sir John Franklin, Black Ivory, Andrew Lang, James Brooke, Outpost of Progress, Personal Record, Rajah Laut, Under Drake's Flag, Captain Good, Fisher Unwin, Malay Archipelago New!
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- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on 32 pages
- Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on 32 pages
- Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard on 15 pages
- Last Essays (Essay index reprint series) by Joseph Conrad on 15 pages
- The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne on 11 pages
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- Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Elisabeth Anne Leonard on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by J. H. Stape on 4 pages
- Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925 by Katherine V. Snyder in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire by Felix Driver on page 4, page 28, and Back Matter
- Joseph Conrad (Routledge Guides to Literature) by Tim Middleton on page 42, page 56, and page 161
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