Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad

Contents: Preface. 1. Joseph Conrad: A Biography. 2. Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad. 3. The Silver of the Mine. 4. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: An Investigation of the Human Self. 5. Poetic Prose and Imperialism: The Ideology of Form in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. 6. The Politics of Memory in Joseph Conrad’s A Personal Record. 7. The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim George. 8. Inever Mean to be slow, Joseph Conrad Wrote to David Meldrum. Bibliography. Index.

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness takes us on a journey: a geographical journey into the heart of the Belgian Congo, a moral journey in search of an ethical response to the uncertainties felt at the cusp of two centuries and a psychological journey into the heart of the subconscious. The ultimate destination for all these journeys is the realization of the darkness that surrounds us and inhabits our very core. (Jacket)