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Title
Conrad's sensational heroines : gender and representation in the late fiction of Joseph Conrad / Ellen Burton Harrington.
ISBN
9783319632971 (electronic book)
3319632973 (electronic book)
3319632965
9783319632964
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 174 pages)
Call Number
PR6005.O4 Z74194 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.8
823/.912
Summary
This volume considers Joseph Conrad's use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own. In his stories and later novels, the familiar writer of sea stories centered on men moves to consider the plight of women and the challenges of renegotiating gender roles in the context of the early twentieth century. Conrad's rich and conflicted consideration of subjectivity and alienation extends to some of his women characters, and his complex use of genre allows him both to prompt and to subvert readers' expectations of popular forms, which typically offer recognizable formulas for gender roles. He frames his critique through familiar sensationalized typologies of women that are demonstrated in his fiction: the violent mother, the murderess, the female suicide, the fallen woman, the adulteress, and the traumatic victim. Considering these figures through the roles and the taxonomies that they simultaneously embody and disrupt, this study exposes internalized patriarchal expectations that Conrad presents as both illegitimate and inescapable.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Conrad's sensational women
The passionate mother and the contest for authority: "The Idiots" and "Amy Foster"
Pornography and representations of women: The Secret Agent and Victory
The Victorian woman suicide: "The Idiots," The Secret Agent, and Chance
The fallen woman and sexuality as "Their Own Weapon": Victory, "Because of the Dollars," and The Arrow of Gold
The adulteress and the confines of marriage: "The Return" and The Rescue
The embowered woman as enchanting commodity: "Smile of Fortune" and The Rover
Conclusion: a woman alone.
