Conrad's Secrets

2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-50783-8
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Conrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hampson, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Covert Plots and Secret Trades: Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rescue Trade Secrets: Heart of Darkness, The Inheritors Political Secrets: The Secret Agent City Secrets: Chance Sexual Secrets: Victory Medical Secrets: Lord Jim, The Arrow of Gold, The Rover Naval Secrets: The Tale Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ROBERT HAMPSON is professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of and co-editor (with Andrew Gibson) of . He has edited various works by Conrad, Kipling and Rider Haggard.