Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity

By Robert Hampson

Book Overview

Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualised self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self-ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the late fiction probes sexuality and morbid psychology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349223042
• ISBN13: 9781349223046
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"