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Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook Gene M. Moore, Editor OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness A C AS E BOO K Recent titles in casebooks in criticism VladimirNabokov’sLolita:A Casebook Edited by Ellen Pifer Nadine Gordimer’sBurger’sDaughter:A Casebook Edited by Judie Newman James Joyce’sA Portraitof the Artistas a Young Man:A Casebook Edited by Mark A. Wollaeger Toni Morrison’sSong of Solomon:A Casebook Edited by Jan Furman ChinuaAchebe’sThingsFall Apart:A Casebook Edited by IsidoreOkpewho RichardWright’sBlack Boy (AmericanHunger):A Casebook Edited by WilliamL. Andrewsand DouglasTaylor WilliamFaulkner’sAbsalom,Absalom!:A Casebook Edited by Fred Hobson Edith Wharton’sThe House of Mirth:A Casebook Edited by Carol J. Singley James Joyce’sUlysses:A Casebook Edited by Derek Attridge JOSEPH CONRAD’S Heart of Darkness J J J A C A S E B O O K Edited by Gene M. Moore 1 2004 1 Oxford NewYork Auckland Bangkok BuenosAires CapeTown Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi HongKong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜oPaulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright(cid:1) 2004 by OxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData JosephConrad’sHeartofdarkness:acasebook/editedbyGeneM.Moore. p. cm.—(Casebooksincriticism) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN0-19-515995-0;0-19-515996-9(pbk.) 1.Conrad,Joseph,1857–1924.Heartofdarkness.2.Psychological fiction,English—Historyandcriticism.3.Africa—inliterature. I.Moore,GeneM.,1948– II.Series. PR6005.04H4762004 823'.912—dc21 2003009868 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper Credits Max Beerbohm, “The Feast,” from A Christmas Garland (London: Heinemann, 1912), pp.125–30. Copyright (cid:1) by the Estate of Max Beerbohm. Reprinted by permission of LondonManage- ment. Patrick Brantlinger, “Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent,” originally published in Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (Autumn 1985): 166–203. Copyright (cid:1) 1985 by the University of Chicago. Reprintedwithpermission of the author and the University of Chicago Press. LindaCostanzoCahir,“NarratologicalParallelsinJosephConrad’s Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now,” originally published in Literature/Film Quarterly 20, no. 3 (1992): 181–87. Reprinted with permission. CyrilClemens,“AChatwithJosephConrad,”originallypublished in Hobbies: The Magazine for Collectors (January 1966): 85, 88, 92. Reprinted with permission of Antiques & Collecting Magazine. vi Credits Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress,” from Tales of Unrest (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), pp.124–70. David Denby, “Jungle Fever,” originally published in The New Yorker, 6 November 1995, pp.118–29. Reprinted with permis- sion of the author. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Crime of the Congo (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1909), pp.3–21. G.F.W. Hope, “Joseph Conrad’s First Cruise in the Nellie,” origi- nally published in The Conradian 25, no. 2 (Autumn 2000): 42– 52. Reprinted with permission of the Harry RansomHuman- ities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Marion Michael and Wilkes Berry, “The Typescript of ‘The Heart of Darkness,’” originally published in Conradiana 12, no. 2 (1980): 147–55. Copyright (cid:1) 1980 by the Textual Studies In- stitute, Department of English, Texas Tech University. Re- printed with permission of the authors and of Texas Tech University Press. Zdzisław Najder, “To the End of the Night,” from Joseph Conrad:A Chronicle, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1983),pp.123–39.Revisedandre- printed with permission of the author. Nina Pelikan Straus, “The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” originally published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction 20, no. 2 (Winter 1987): 123–37. Copy- right (cid:1) 1987 by novel Corp. Reprinted with permission. Ian Watt, “Conrad’s Impressionism,” from Conrad in the Nineteenth Century(Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1979),pp.169– 80.Copyright(cid:1)1979byIanWatt.Reprintedwithpermission. Rino Zhuwarara, “Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Re- sponse,” originally published in Kunapipi 16, no. 3 (1994): 21– 37. Reprinted with permission of the author. Contents Introduction 3 gene m. moore An Outpost of Progress 17 joseph conrad Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent 43 patrick brantlinger From The Crime of the Congo 89 arthur conan doyle Joseph Conrad’s First Cruise in the Nellie 111 g. f. w. hope To the End of the Night 125 zdzis aw najder Ł viii Contents The Typescript of “The Heart of Darkness” 153 marion michael and wilkes berry The Feast, by J*s*ph C*nr*d 165 max beerbohm Conrad’s Impressionism 169 ian watt Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now 183 linda costanzo cahir The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 197 nina pelikan straus Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Response 219 rino zhuwarara Jungle Fever 243 david denby A Chat with Joseph Conrad 267 cyril clemens Suggested Reading 277 Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness A C AS E BOO K
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