Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition

by Andrea White

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Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire served to promote, celebrate, and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between us and them, colonizer and colonized. Andrea White's study examines popular travel literature in relation to later adventure stories, and sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad demythologized the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, more critical means of evaluating the experience of empire.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521060761

ISBN13:9780521060769

Release Date:April 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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