Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Constructing the imperial subject: nineteenth-century travel writing
- 2 Adventure fiction: a special case
- 3 Them and us: a useful and appealing fiction
- 4 The shift toward subversion: the case of H. Rider Haggard
- 5 Travel writing and adventure fiction as shaping discourses for Conrad
- 6 Almayer's Folly
- 7 An Outcast of the Islands
- 8 The African fictions (I): “An Outpost of Progress”
- 9 The African fictions (II): “Heart of Darkness”
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Constructing the imperial subject: nineteenth-century travel writing
- 2 Adventure fiction: a special case
- 3 Them and us: a useful and appealing fiction
- 4 The shift toward subversion: the case of H. Rider Haggard
- 5 Travel writing and adventure fiction as shaping discourses for Conrad
- 6 Almayer's Folly
- 7 An Outcast of the Islands
- 8 The African fictions (I): “An Outpost of Progress”
- 9 The African fictions (II): “Heart of Darkness”
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition , pp. 204 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993