Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333457412)

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.

Author: Robert Hampson
ISBN-10: 0333457412
ISBN-13: 9780333457412
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/23/1992
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d