Heart of Darkness: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series / Edition 3

by Joseph Conrad

Overview

Complete with documents putting this classic novel into historical context and critical essays that take several contemporary critical perspectives, this version of Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness with a variety of suppporting resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312457532
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	12/27/2010
Series:	Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Best known for his novella Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish–British author. Although not a native English speaker, Conrad came to be regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He revolutionized the English novel with books such as The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Before publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent almost 20 years working mostly at sea as a merchant sailor.

Date of Birth:

December 3, 1857

Date of Death:

August 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Berdiczew, Podolia, Russia

Place of Death:

Bishopsbourne, Kent, England

Education:

Tutored in Switzerland. Self-taught in classical literature. Attended maritime school in Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

Part One: Heart of Darkness: The Complete Text
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text

*Part Two: Heart of Darkness in Cultural Context
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
*Combining the New Historicism and Postcolonial Criticism with Psychoanalytic Criticism
*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

*New

What People are Saying About This

Joyce Carol Oates

One of the great, if troubling, visionary works of Western civilization.

Editorial Reviews

Presents the novel along with essays from five critical perspectives: reader-response, feminist and gender, deconstruction, the new historicism, and cultural criticism. Each essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective. The text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Conrad and the novel.

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