Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad

by Jeremy Hawthorn

Awarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009
The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement then this results in bad writing. Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826495273
• ISBN13: 9780826495273
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"