Making use of recent masculinity theories, Joseph A. Kestner sheds new light on Victorian
and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with works published in the 1880s, when writers …

" Rereading Conrad sheds new light on an author who has spoken to readers for over a
century. Schwarz's essays take account of recent developments in theory and cultural …

This book analyzes the representations of homosexuality in Conrad's fiction, beginning with
Conrad's life and letters to show that Conrad himself was, at least imaginatively, bisexual …

" The Secret Sharer" may well appear to be profoundly multivalent, even to the point of self-
contradiction. It is at the same time both a writerly text that invites a wide variety of …

Despite the many critical articles written on" The Secret Sharer," I believe I can shed more
light on certain important symbols mentioned at various points in the story. The symbols I will …

The relationships of the three major characters in" The Secret Sharer"—the young captain
and narrator, the fugitive Leggatt and his ineffectual nemesis, Captain Archbold—have …

Countering primarily psychoanalytic readings, this study attempts to provide a realistic
context for the interpretation of Joseph Conrad's “The Secret Sharer” by focusing on the …

Names: Boes, Tobias, 1976–author. Title: Thomas Mann's war: literature, politics, and the
world republic of letters/Tobias Boes. Description: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019 …

The central concern of this study is to describe how Conrad's" doubles" are related to the
phenomenon of" narcissism" or a" narcissistic vision" and how Conrad uses the motif of …

This Norton Critical Edition includes four stories—two set on stormy seas, two on calm seas,
all four based on the same incident—that speak to each other in interesting ways. The …