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Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance

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  • © 2000

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  1. Linda Dryden
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 1-15

  3. Making the Imperial Hero

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 16-34

  4. The Possibilities of Romance

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 35-50

  5. Almayer’s Folly: When Romance Collides with Reality

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 51-76

  6. An Outcast of the Islands: Echoes of Romance

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 77-109

  7. ‘Karain’: Constructing the Romantic Subject

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 110-136

  8. Lord Jim: The Limitations of Romance

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 137-194

  9. Conclusion: Subverting the Imperial Romance

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 195-199

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 200-228
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About this book

Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.

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'Dryden's detailed analyses make her study an accessible, thorough introduction to Conrad's early fiction.' - Victorian Studies

'Linda Dryden has proven herself a Conrad scholar of the first order, scrutinizing his early, and largely critically ignored, Malay quartet where it subverts...Read Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance. It's a refreshing, lucid, twenty-first century look at a solid branch of nineteenth-century lore.' - Eric Madeen, The East

About the author

Linda Dryden is Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the Department of Print Media, Publishing, and Communication at Napier University, Edinburgh.

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