Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity

Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity
ISBN-10
1349223026
ISBN-13
9781349223022
Series
Joseph Conrad
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
326
Language
English
Published
2016-07-27
Publisher
Springer
Author
Robert Hampson

Description

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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