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Heart of Dark Nce 4E PA

ISBN: 9780393926361 | 0393926362
Edition: 4th
Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 12/17/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views... MORE
Introductionix
The Text of Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
3(75)
... MORE
Textual Appendix
78(21)
Textual History and Editing Principles
79(3)
Robert Kimbrough
Textual Variants
82(17)
Backgrounds and Contexts
Imperialism and the Congo
99(109)
Encyclopaedia Britannica • Congo Free State (Tenth Edition, 1902)
99(20)
[European Reaction to Leopold's Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910)
113(6)
[The Sacred Mission of Civilization]
119(1)
King Leopold II
An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II
120(11)
George Washington Williams
The Congo Report
131(29)
Roger Casement
[Property and Trade versus Forced Production]
160(11)
Edmund D. Morel
Meeting Mr. Kurtz
171(10)
Adam Hochschild
[Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]
181(12)
Alan Simmons
Illustrations
193(15)
Nineteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Race
208(34)
[The African Character]
208(4)
G. W. F. Hegel
On the Races of Man
212(6)
Charles Darwin
[Are Humans One Race or Many?]
218(6)
Alfred Russel Wallace
The Comparative Worth of Different Races
224(5)
Francis Galton
[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races]
229(4)
Benjamin Kidd
Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Empire
233(9)
Peter Edgerly Firchow
Conrad in the Congo
242(37)
[Imagining Africa]
242(8)
Joseph Conrad
Selected Letters En Route to the Congo
242(8)
[Introduction to ``The Congo Diary'' and the ``Up-river Book'']
250(3)
Zdzislaw Najder
The Congo Diary
253(26)
Joseph Conrad
Up-river Book
261(2)
Selected Letters from Africa and After
263(10)
Geography and Some Explorers
273(6)
The Author on Art and Literature
279(28)
Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''
279(28)
Joseph Conrad
Books
283(3)
Henry James: An Appreciation
286(2)
Preface to Youth
288(2)
Preface to A Personal Record
290(2)
Selected Letters
292(15)
Criticism
Contemporary Responses
307(19)
From Academy and Literature
307(2)
Edward Garnett
Unsigned Review • From the Manchester Guardian
309(1)
Unsigned Review • From the Times Literary Supplement
310(1)
Unsigned Review • From the Athenaeum
311(1)
From the Speaker
312(1)
John Masefield
The New Novel
313(1)
Henry James
Joseph Conrad: A Note
314(2)
E. M. Forster
A Personal Rememberance
316(7)
Ford Madox Ford
Joseph Conrad
323(3)
Virginia Woolf
Essays in Criticism
326(158)
The Journey Within
326(10)
Albert Guerard
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
336(13)
Chinua Achebe
[Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]
349(16)
Ian Watt
Heart of Darkness and Racism
365(11)
Hunt Hawkins
An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
376(10)
Peter Brooks
[Imperialism, Impressionism, and the Politics of Style]
386(10)
Patrick Brantlinger
[Primitivism and the African Woman in Heart of Darkness]
396(9)
Marianna Torgovnick
The Women of Heart of Darkness
405(10)
Jeremy Hawthorn
The Failure of Metaphysics
415(7)
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
Two Visions in Heart of Darkness
422(7)
Edward W. Said
[Reading, Race, and Representing Others]
429(15)
Paul B. Armstrong
Cannibalising Traditions: Representation and Critique in Heart of Darkness
444(11)
Anthony Fothergill
[Masculinity, Modernity, and Homosexual Desire]
455(8)
Andrew Michael Roberts
Should We Read ``Heart of Darkness''?
463(11)
J. Hillis Miller
Iconography and the Feminine Ideal
474(10)
Lissa Schneider
Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
484(23)
Conrad's Ethics and the Margins of Apocalypse Now
484(7)
Louis K. Greiff
Modernism and Vietnam
491(9)
Margot Norris
``To Boldly Go'': Heart of Darkness and Popular Culture
500(7)
Lynda J. Dryden
A Chronology507(4)
Joseph Conrad
Selected Bibliography511

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