Full Description
Complete with documents putting this classic novel into historical context and critical essays that take several contemporary critical perspectives, this version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness with a variety of suppporting resources.
Contents
Part One: Heart of Darkness: The Complete Text
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text *Part Two: Heart of Darkness in Cultural Context
Contextual Documents and Illustrations
Part Three: Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Heart of Darkness
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness
JOHANNA M. SMITH, "Too Beautiful Altogether": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness
J. HILLIS MILLER, Heart of Darkness Revisited
The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness
BROOK THOMAS, Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness
Postcolonial Criticism and Heart of Darkness
PATRICK BRANTLINGER, Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?
*Combining Postcolonial, Feminist, and Gender Criticism with Queer Theory
*GABRELLE McINTIRE, The Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Conrad's Heart of Darkness *Combining the New Historicism and Postcolonial Criticism with Psychoanalytic Criticism
*TONY C. BROWN, Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier: The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms *New
