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Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. Robert Hampson

    1. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 1-10

  3. Two Prototypes of Betrayal: Almayer’s Folly

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 11-31

  4. The Unshared Ideal of Self: An Outcast of the Islands

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 32-66

  5. The Real Existence of Passions: The Sisters and ‘The Rescuer’

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 67-100

  6. The Brotherhood of the Sea: The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Lord Jim

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 101-136

  7. The Betrayal of Land-entanglements: Nostromo and The Secret Agent

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 137-166

  8. Independence and Community: Under Western Eyes and ‘The Secret Sharer’

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 167-195

  9. The Wisdom of the Heart: Chance and Victory

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 196-250

  10. Initiation and Invention: The Rover and The Arrow of Gold

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 251-281

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 282-326
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Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualised self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self-ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the late fiction probes sexuality and morbid psychology.

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  • Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, UK

    Robert Hampson

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