Heart of Darkness
Third Edition ©2011 Joseph Conrad; Edited by Ross C Murfin Formats: Print
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a master prose stylist, widely regarded as one of the greatest English-language novelists. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.
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Ross C. Murfin
Ross Murfin, E. A. Lilly Distinguished Professor of English and former provost at Southern Methodist University, has also taught at the University of Virginia, Yale University, and the University of Miami, where he was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences until 1996. He is the author of Swinburne, Lawrence, Hardy, and the Burden of Belief (1978); The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Texts and Contexts (1983); Sons and Lovers: A Novel of Division and Desire (1987); and Lord Jim: After the Truth (1992); and the editor of Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties (1983). The series editor of Bedford/St. Martins popular Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, he has also edited two volumes in the series, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (Third Edition, 2011) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (Second Edition, 2006).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
Contextual Documents and Illustrations
Part Three: Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Heart of Darkness
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness
JOHANNA M. SMITH, “Too Beautiful Altogether”: Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness
J. HILLIS MILLER, Heart of Darkness Revisited
The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness
BROOK THOMAS, Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness
Postcolonial Criticism and Heart of Darkness
PATRICK BRANTLINGER, Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?
*Combining Postcolonial, Feminist, and Gender Criticism with Queer Theory
*GABRELLE McINTIRE, The Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Conrads Heart of Darkness
*TONY C. BROWN, Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier: The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
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Authors
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a master prose stylist, widely regarded as one of the greatest English-language novelists. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.
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Ross C. Murfin
Ross Murfin, E. A. Lilly Distinguished Professor of English and former provost at Southern Methodist University, has also taught at the University of Virginia, Yale University, and the University of Miami, where he was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences until 1996. He is the author of Swinburne, Lawrence, Hardy, and the Burden of Belief (1978); The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Texts and Contexts (1983); Sons and Lovers: A Novel of Division and Desire (1987); and Lord Jim: After the Truth (1992); and the editor of Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties (1983). The series editor of Bedford/St. Martins popular Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, he has also edited two volumes in the series, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (Third Edition, 2011) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (Second Edition, 2006).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
Contextual Documents and Illustrations
Part Three: Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Heart of Darkness
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness
JOHANNA M. SMITH, “Too Beautiful Altogether”: Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness
J. HILLIS MILLER, Heart of Darkness Revisited
The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness
BROOK THOMAS, Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness
Postcolonial Criticism and Heart of Darkness
PATRICK BRANTLINGER, Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?
*Combining Postcolonial, Feminist, and Gender Criticism with Queer Theory
*GABRELLE McINTIRE, The Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Conrads Heart of Darkness
*TONY C. BROWN, Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier: The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
Product Updates
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Heart of Darkness
This volume presents the text of the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrads classic short novel along with documents that place the work in historical context and critical essays that read Heart of Darkness from several contemporary critical perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. In this third edition, the section of cultural documents and illustrations is entirely new, as are two recent exemplary critical essays by Gabrielle McIntire and Tony C. Brown that synthesize a variety of current critical approaches.
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