Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition

by Andrea White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521060761
• ISBN13: 9780521060769
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"