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The first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview's best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of the most recent generation. The introduction has been extensively rewritten, and the appendices of contextual materials thoroughly overhauled.The two previous editions of the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness included a substantial selection of documents on the history of Benin, ranging from excerpts taken from Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative to documents concerning the Benin massacre of 1897. Those documents concerning a neighboring Bantu society were included in large part because of the paucity of known late nineteenth-century documents concerning the Congo by black Africans - or indeed by black observers of any nationality. In place of those Benin-related materials, this new edition includes substantial excerpts from George Washington Williams's Letter to Leopold II, as well as substantial excerpts from an extraordinary document not included in any other edition of Heart of Darkness (but discussed extensively in two ground-breaking twenty-first century works of scholarship, David Van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People and Maya Jasanoff's The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World): the autobiography of Disasi Makulo. Makulo grew up near the shore of the Congo River in the 1880s and early 1890s, was enslaved by notorious ivory dealer Tippu Tip, and then was taken under the wing of Henry Morgan Stanley. Makulo's account - substantial excerpts of which are here translated into English for the first time - opens an unprecedented window on life in the equatorial forest of the Congo in the late nineteenth century.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Third Broadview Edition
Preface to the First Broadview Edition
Introduction
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology
A Congo Chronology
A Note on the Text
Heart of Darkness
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
1. From Edward Garnett, "Mr. Conrad's New Book," Academy and Literature (6 December 1902)
2. Hugh Clifford, "The Art of Mr. Joseph Conrad," Spectator (29 November 1902)
3. From "Mr. Conrad's New Book" (unsigned), Manchester Guardian (10 December 1902)
4. From "Youth" (unsigned), Times Literary Supplement (12 December 1902)
5. From Athenaeum (unsigned) (20 December 1902)
6. From "Some Stories by Joseph Conrad" (unsigned), New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (4 April 1903)
7. From The Monthly Review (unsigned) (7 April 1903)
8. Virginia Woolf, "Mr. Conrad's 'Youth,'" Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1917)
Appendix B: Diaries, Letters, Other Writings, and Comments by Conrad
1. From Conrad's Congo Diary (1890)
2. Letter to Marguerite Poradowska (26 September 1890)
3. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 December 1898)
4. From Edward Garnett, "Introduction" to Letters from Conrad (1928)
5. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (31 January 1898)
6. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (8 February 1899)
7. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 May 1902)
8. From Letter to Elsie Hueffer (3 December 1902)
9. From Letter to Edward Garnett (22 December 1902)
10. From "Geography and Some Explorers," National Geographic (March 1924)
11. From Letter to Roger Casement (21 December 1903)
12. "Author's Note" to Almayer's Folly (1895)
Appendix C: The Congo: African, American, and European Viewpoints
1. From Disasi Makulo, The Life of Disasi Makulo (c. 1940)
2. From William G. Stairs, Victorian Explorer: The African Diaries of William G. Stairs (1887)
3. From George Washington Williams, An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II (1890)
4. From E.J. Glave, In Savage Africa: Or, Six Years Adventure in Congo-Land (1893)
5. From Guy Burrows, The Land of the Pigmies (1898)
6. From "An Englishman's Account of Congo State Methods," The Times (26 May 1899)
7. From Roger Casement, "The Casement Report" (1904)
8. From E.D. Morel, Great Britain and the Congo (1909)
9. From Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (1905)
Appendix D: Henry Morton Stanley
1. From Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878)
2. From Henry Morton Stanley, "Preface," Through the Dark Continent (1899)
3. From Henry Morton Stanley, Incidents of the Journey through the Dark Continent (1886)
4. From speech at a dinner given in his honour by the Lotos Club in New York (27 November 1886)
5. From speech on being given the Freedom of the City of Swansea (4 October 1892)
6. Advertising Announcement (1899)
Appendix E: British Perspectives on Race and Imperialism
1. From Thomas Carlyle, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question," Fraser's Magazine (December 1849)
2. From John Stuart Mill, "The Negro Question," Fraser's Magazine (January 1850)
3. From W.M. Thackeray to Anne Carmichael-Smyth (26 January 1853)
4. From John Ruskin, "Lecture 1: Inaugural" (1870)
5. From George Gissing to Algernon Gissing (23 January 1885)
6. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895)
7. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Royal Colonial Institute (31 March 1897)
8. From Mary Kingsley, "Appendix 1: Trade and Labour in West Africa," Travels in West Africa (1897)
9. From Benjamin Kidd, The Control of the Tropics (1898)
10. From Cecil Rhodes, Speech at Cape Town (18 July 1898)
Appendix F: Conrad's Reading
1. From Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Saint Teresa, Being Some Account of Her Life and Times (1894)
2. From R.B. Cunninghame Graham, "Bloody Niggers," The Social-Democrat (April 1897)
3. From Jules Houdret, "The Congo Free State," Letter to the Editor of The Times (10 April 1897)
4. From H.R. Fox Bourne, "The Congo Free State," Letter to the Editor of The Times (16 April 1897)
5. From Andrew Seth, "Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Works," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (October 1897)
6. From E.J. Glave, "Cruelty in the Congo Free State: Concluding Extracts from the Journals of E.J. Glave," Century Magazine (September 1897)
7. From "Notes," Saturday Review (17 December 1898)
Appendix G: Major Textual Changes
Appendix H: Illustrations
Appendix I: The Photographs of Alexandre Delcommune
Appendix J: The Photographs of Alice Harris
Appendix K: Maps of the Congo
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