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Conrad's Sensational Heroines - Gender and Representation in the Late Fiction of Joseph Conrad (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R2,921
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Conrad's Sensational Heroines - Gender and Representation in the Late Fiction of Joseph Conrad (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Ellen Burton Harrington

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This volume considers Joseph Conrad's use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own. In his stories and later novels, the familiar writer of sea stories centered on men moves to consider the plight of women and the challenges of renegotiating gender roles in the context of the early twentieth century. Conrad's rich and conflicted consideration of subjectivity and alienation extends to some of his women characters, and his complex use of genre allows him both to prompt and to subvert readers' expectations of popular forms, which typically offer recognizable formulas for gender roles. He frames his critique through familiar sensationalized typologies of women that are demonstrated in his fiction: the violent mother, the murderess, the female suicide, the fallen woman, the adulteress, and the traumatic victim. Considering these figures through the roles and the taxonomies that they simultaneously embody and disrupt, this study exposes internalized patriarchal expectations that Conrad presents as both illegitimate and inescapable.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: November 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: Ellen Burton Harrington
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 173
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-63296-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 3-319-63296-5
Barcode: 9783319632964

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