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Introduction
Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.
Keywords
fiction novel Romanticism
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597075
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-41097-2
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-59707-5
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