Conrad in the Twenty-First Century : Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives (Paperback)

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Int roduction CAROLA KAPLAN, PETER LANCELOT MALLIOS, ANDREA WHITE Foreword J. HILLIS MILLER Part 1. Millennial Conrad: Heart of Darkness in the Twenty-First Century 1 Beyond Mastery: The Future of Conrad's Beginnings GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM 2 The Moment and After-Life of Heart of Darkness BENITA PARRY 3 Some Millennial Footnotes on Heart of Darkness DAPHNA ERDINAST-VULCAN 4 Conrad's Darkness Revisited: Mediated Warfare and Modern(ist) Propaganda in Heart of Darkness and The Unlighted Coast MARK WOLLAEGER Part 2. Global Conrad 5 Between Men: Conrad in the Fiction of Two Contemporary Indian Writers PADMINI MONGIA 6 Opera and the Passage of Literature: Joseph Conrad, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Cultural Dialectic of Abysmal Taste CHRISTOPHER GOGWILT 7 Conrad's Heterotopic Fiction: Composite Maps, Superimposed Sites, and Impossible Spaces ROBERT HAMPSON 8 Connoisseurs of Terror and the Political Aesthetics of Anarchism: Nostromo and A Set of Six ANTHONY FOTHERGILL 9 Reading The Secret Agent Now: The Press, the Police, the Premonition of Simulation PETER LANCELOT MALLIOS Part 3. Conrad and Textuality 10 Suspended WILLIAM W. BONNEY 11 Conrad on the Borderlands of Modernism: Maurice Greiffenhagen, Dorothy Richardson, and the Case of Typhoon SUSAN JONES 12 Conrad and Posthumanist Narration: Fabricating Class and Consciousness on Board the Narcissus BRIAN RICHARDSON 13 The Thing Which Was Not and The Thing That Is Also: Conrad's Ironic Shadowing LAURENCE DAVIES Part 4. Conrad and Subjectivity 14 Writing from Within: Autobiography and Immigrant Subjectivity in The Mirror of the Sea ANDREA WHITE 15 A Matter of Tears: Grieving in Under Western Eyes JENNIFER FRASER 16 Beyond Gender: Deconstructions of Masculinity and Femininity from Karain to Under Western Eyes CAROLA M. KAPLAN Part 5. Traveling with Conrad 17 An Interview with Edward W. Said Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index