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Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance
Linda Dryden
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Description for Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance
Hardback. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters, Linda Dryden argues that Joseph Conrad exposes the empty promises of 19th century imperial romance fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.
Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333747155
SKU
V9780333747155
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Ref
99-15
About Linda Dryden
Linda Dryden is Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the Department of Print Media, Publishing, and Communication at Napier University, Edinburgh.
Reviews for Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance
'Dryden's detailed analyses make her study an accessible, thorough introduction to Conrad's early fiction.' - Victorian Studies 'Linda Dryden has proven herself a Conrad scholar of the first order, scrutinizing his early, and largely critically ignored, Malay quartet where it subverts...Read Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance. It's a refreshing, lucid, twenty-first century look at a solid ... Read more