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Conrad and Masculinity

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  • © 2000

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  1. Andrew Michael Roberts

    1. University of Dundee, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 1-11

  3. Masculinity, ‘Race’ and Empire: Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 13-43

  4. Imperialism and Male Bonds: ‘Karain’, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, Lord Jim

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 44-65

  5. Masculinity and the Body: Typhoon, The Secret Agent

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 66-93

  6. Gender and the Disciplined Body: Nostromo

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 94-117

  7. Epistemology, Modernity and Masculinity: ‘Heart of Darkness’

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 118-136

  8. Masculinity, ‘Woman’ and Truth: The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Chance

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 137-162

  9. Vision, Power and Homosocial Exchange: The Arrow of Gold

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 163-185

  10. Vision and the Economies of Empire and Masculinity: Victory

    • Andrew Michael Roberts
    Pages 186-210

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-250
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About this book

This timely study offers a radical re-reading of Conrad's work in the light of contemporary theories of masculinity. Drawing on gay studies, feminism, film theory and literary theory, Roberts shows how Conrad's fiction, even as it reflects certain assumptions of its day about the role of men in society, offers striking insights into the instability of the 'masculine'. The book explores the relationship of masculinity with colonialism, modernity, the visual and the body in a wide range of Conrad's major and lesser-known fiction.

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  • University of Dundee, UK

    Andrew Michael Roberts

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Andrew Michael Roberts is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee.

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