Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness A Casebook [Paperback]

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's fictional account of a journey up the Congo river in 1890, raises important questions about colonialism and narrative theory. This casebook contains materials relevant to a deeper understanding of the origins and reception of this controversial text, including Conrad's own story An Outpost of Progress, together with a little-known memoir by one of Conrad's oldest English friends, a brief history of the Congo Free State by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a parody of Conrad by Max Beerbohm. A wide range of theoretical approaches are also represented, examining Conrad's text in terms of cultural, historical, textual, stylistic, narratological, post-colonial, feminist, and reader-response criticism. The volume concludes with an interview in which Conrad compares his adventures on the Congo with Mark Twain's experiences as a Mississippi pilot.

Introduction,Gene M. Moore
1. An Outpost of Progress,Joseph Conrad
2. Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent,Patrick Brantlinger
3. FromThe Crime of the Congo,Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Joseph Conrad's First Cruise in theNellie,G.F.W. Hope
5. To the End of the Night,Zdzislaw Najder
6. The Typescript of The Heart of Darkness ,Marion Michael and Wilkes Berry
7. The Feast, by J*s*ph C*nr*d,Max Beerbohm
8. Conrad's Impressionism,Ian Watt
9. Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad'sHeart of Darknessand Francis Ford Coppola'sApocalypse Now,Linda Costanza Cahir
10. The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad'sHeart of Darkness,Nina Pelikan Straus
11.Heart of DarknessRevisited: The African Response,Rina Zhuwarara
12. Jungle Fever,David Denby
13. A Chat with Joseph Conrad,Cyril Clemens
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