Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Humans and animals in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' - Kai Wiegandt; Bloody racists of 1899: Some fictional contexts for Conrad's alleged racism in heart of darkness - Andrew Glazzard; Penetrating the impenetrable in Conrad's fiction - Jeremy Hawthorn; Heart of darkness as chronotope: Conradian avatars in fiction, criticism, publishing and pedagogy - Russell West-Pavlov; At the dying of two centuries: Heart of darkness and disgrace - David Medalie; Victory music and the world of finance - Konstantin Sofianos; The paradox of progress: Far-reaching deliberations and 10 per cent loans - Robert Hampson; Heroes of the real: Conrad's epic without a cause - Josiane Paccaud-Huguet; Being elsewhere: Conrad, Malinowski, and the anxiety of storytelling - Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan; Going about: Conrad's progress in a personal record - Douglas Kerr; Duo, trio and quartette - A comparative reading of Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osborne's the ebb-tide and Joseph Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' - Jurgen Kramer; Irony and distance: Variants of narrative and imperialist critique in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' - Jakob Lothe; 'Positioning' the reader in Conrad's Marlow narratives and in Ngugi's a grain of wheat - Gail Fincham; Notes on contributors.

About the Author

Gail Fincham is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has edited, co-edited, and contributed to three collections of essays on Conrad (1996, 2002, 2003), and is a contributor to Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (ed. Lothe, Hawthorn, Phelan, 2008). With Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe she co-edited and contributed to Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism (Palgrave, 2008), wrote the monograph The Novels of Zakes Mda in Postapartheid South Africa (UCT Press, 2011) and contributed to Each Other’s Yarns: Essays on Narrative and Critical Method for Jeremy Hawthorn (Novus Press, 2012).

Jeremy Hawthorn is Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published three monographs and many articles on the fiction of Joseph Conrad, and other monographs and articles on narrative and on literary theory. The 4th edition of his A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory was published in 2000, and the 6th edition of his Studying the Novel in 2010.

Jakob Lothe is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has also taught comparative literature at the universities of Bergen and Oslo. Lothe’s books include Conrad’s Narrative Method (Oxford University Press, 1989) and Narrative in Fiction and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has edited and co-edited many volumes, including The Art of Brevity (University of South Carolina Press, 2004; paperback 2011), Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism (Palgrave, 2008); Joseph Conrad (Ohio State University Press, 2008), Franz Kafka (Ohio State University Press, 2011), and After Testimony: the Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (Ohio State University Press, 2012).