Ian Watt 
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century [EPUB ebook] 

‘Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s.’—
New York Times



‘Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s.’—
New York Times

Tabla de materias

Preface

Acknowledgments

Annotation and Abbreviations

CHAPTER 1. The Earlier Life: 1857-1894

i. 1857-1874: Poland

ii. 1874-1878: France

iii. 1878-1894: England

iv. The Past as Prologue

CHAPTER 2. Almayer’s Folly

i. Memories: Composition and Sources

ii. Models: Exotic Romance, Naturalism, and Flaubert

iii. Problems: Language, Narrative Method, and Characterisation

CHAPTER 3. The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’

i. 1895-1897: Becoming an Author

ii. The Preface

iii. From Memory to Fiction

iv. Solidarity in The Nigger of ‘Narcissus’

v. The Affirmations of Retrospect

CHAPTER 4. Heart Of Darkness

i. 1897-1898: In the Doldrums

ii. Sources: The Congo and Kurtz

iii. Ideological Perspectives: Kurtz and the Fate of Victorian Progress

iv. Critical Perspectives

a. Impressionism

b. Symbolism

c. Marlow and Henry James

v. The Tale

a. To the Central Station

b. Marlow and Kurtz

c. The Lie and the Darkness

CHAPTER 5. Lord Jim

i. 1898-1900: The Pent and Ford

ii. Composition and Sources

iii. The Narrative Progress and Its Methods

a. Marlow’s Involvement: Delayed Decoding, Symbolic Deciphering and Thematic Apposition

b. Marlow’s Inquiry: The Roles of Time and Narrative Impressionism

c. Patusan: Progression d’effet and Romantic Distance

iv. Jim and Marlow

a. The Rescue

b. At Stein’s

c. The Friendship

v. The Ending

Epilogue

Index

 

Sobre el autor

Ian Watt was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.