Titlebook: Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance; Linda Dryden Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000 fiction

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角斗士

Introduction,nd . (1911), his earlier novels, . (1895) and . (1896), now receive serious scholarly attention.. The significance of Conrad’s early Malay stories within his oeuvre has been recognized by Heliéna Krenn, who examines how empire, race, and women are handled in the Lingard trilogy.. Many critics have n

Expostulate

Making the Imperial Hero,tered with references to gentlemanly conduct: Mesty, in . (1836). always refers to Jack Easy as ‘the young gentleman’, and Mr. Oxbelly, Jack’s second in command, who is himself ‘honest and manly’, believes that it is the first duty of every officer in the king’s navy ‘to show an example of courtesy

narcissism

The Possibilities of Romance,nce over realism. He claimed that truth was ‘a(chǎn) word of very debatable propriety’ and that art cannot ‘compete with life’: ‘What, then, is the object, what the method, of an art, and what the source of its power? The whole secret is that no art does “compete with life”. Man’s one method, whether he r

憤慨一下

: When Romance Collides with Reality,of the publication date of . (., 206). Perhaps these people were anxious to get hold of another imperial adventure in the style of Henry or Haggard; if so, they were rewarded for their wait with a very different kind of novel. When . appeared in April 1895 some reviewers were disappointed by its fai

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FECT

,‘Karain’: Constructing the Romantic Subject,? It was written for Blackwood’ (., 57). Those ‘magazine’ish’ elements include a ghost, an exotic Malay chieftain, charms and talismans, love, betrayal, and questions of honour, and it is likely that it was precisely these ‘magazine’ish’ qualities that Conrad was looking for to ensure publication fo

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: The Limitations of Romance,h must have brought Conrad great pleasure. ., originally intended as ‘a(chǎn) sketch’, grew to such proportions that William Blackwood, frustrated by delays, began its serialization in October 1899 after the completion of just four instalments. In his 1917 Preface Conrad gives Blackwood the credit for pro

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