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Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition (Paperback)
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Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire
usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial
project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between
'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea White's study
opens with an examination of popular exploration literature in
relation to later adventure stories, showing how a shared view of
the white man in the tropics authorized the European intrusion into
other lands. She then sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this
context, showing how Conrad in fact demythologized and disrupted
the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing, by
simultaneously - with the modernist's double vision - admiring
man's capacity to dream but applauding the desire to condemn many
of its consequences. She argues that the very complexity of
Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of
evaluating the experience of empire.
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