Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

Katherine Isobel Baxter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-35825-6 (ISBN)

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In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, the author suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. The author examines not only familiar novels like Lord Jim but also less-studied works such as Romance and The Rover, using Robert Miles's model of the 'philosophical romance' to show that for Conrad, romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment, even in his later fiction, and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation.

Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University.

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 'Heart of Darkness' and Lord Jim: 'Heart of darkness' and the modern quest; Lord Jim: other words, other worlds. Part 2 Romance, Nostromo, and Chance: Anti-philosophical Romance; Nostromo: not the man; Power, gender and laughter in Chance. Part 3 Victory, The Rescue, and The Rover: Victory: 'damned tricks' and girls; Theatre and incomprehension in The Rescue; The Rover: reconciliation of sorts; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-35825-8 / 1138358258
ISBN-13	978-1-138-35825-6 / 9781138358256
Zustand	Neuware