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Hardcover | 17 May 1993

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Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between 'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea White's study opens with an examination of popular exploration literature in relation to later adventure stories, showing how a shared view of the white man in the tropics authorized the European intrusion into other lands. She then sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad in fact demythologized and disrupted the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing, by simultaneously - with the modernist's double vision - admiring man's capacity to dream but applauding the desire to condemn many of its consequences. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of evaluating the experience of empire.

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"...a useful contribution to the field." Jil Larson, Victorian Studies "All in all, White's study is clearly written, modestly argued, and genuinely helpful in giving substance to generalizations often made about Conrad's fiction." David Leon Higon, English Literature in Transition

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Introduction
Constructing the imperial subject: nineteenth-century travel writing
Adventure fiction: a special case
Them and us: a useful and appealing fiction
The shift toward subversion: the case of Rider Haggard
Travel writing and adventure fiction as shaping discourses for Conrad
Almayer's Folly
An Outcast of the Islands
The African fictions: (I) - An Outpost of Progress
The African fictions: (II) - Heart of Darkness
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