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Conrad's Narratives of difference : not exactly tales for boys
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Details
- Creator
- Lissa Schneider
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780415762625, 0415762626, 9781136730726, 1136730729, 9781315024455, 1315024454, 9781136730658, 1136730656, 0415966779, 1306215552
- OCLC
- ocn866445829, ocn866837966
- First published 2003 by Routledge.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Half Title; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Not Exactly Tales for Boys; CHAPTER ONE Iconography and the Feminine Ideal: Torches, Blindfolds, and the ""true light of femininity"" in Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Rescue, and ""The Return""; CHAPTER TWO Plots and Performance: Conrad's ""tricks with girls"" in ""Freya of the Seven Isles,"" Under Western Eyes, An Outcast of the Islands, and The Rescue
- CHAPTER THREE Colonial Occupations: Race and Gender in ""An Outpost of Progress"" and The Nigger of the ""Narcissus""CHAPTER FOUR Politics in the House: Genre, Narrative, and the Domestic Drama in The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim; CODA Narrative, Femininity, Death; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX