Heart of Darkness NCE 4E PA

by Conrad,Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780393926361
• ISBN10: 0393926362
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Textbook Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschild's recent book, King Leopold's Ghost, as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton. "Criticism" includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and Heart of Darkness and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Text of Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness	3	(75)
Textual Appendix	78	(21)
Textual History and Editing Principles	79	(3)
Robert Kimbrough
Textual Variants	82	(17)
Backgrounds and Contexts
Imperialism and the Congo	99	(109)
Encyclopaedia Britannica • Congo Free State (Tenth Edition, 1902)	99	(20)
[European Reaction to Leopold's Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910)	113	(6)
[The Sacred Mission of Civilization]	119	(1)
King Leopold II
An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II	120	(11)
George Washington Williams
The Congo Report	131	(29)
Roger Casement
[Property and Trade versus Forced Production]	160	(11)
Edmund D. Morel
Meeting Mr. Kurtz	171	(10)
Adam Hochschild
[Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]	181	(12)
Alan Simmons
Illustrations	193	(15)
Nineteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Race	208	(34)
[The African Character]	208	(4)
G. W. F. Hegel
On the Races of Man	212	(6)
Charles Darwin
[Are Humans One Race or Many?]	218	(6)
Alfred Russel Wallace
The Comparative Worth of Different Races	224	(5)
Francis Galton
[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races]	229	(4)
Benjamin Kidd
Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Empire	233	(9)
Peter Edgerly Firchow
Conrad in the Congo	242	(37)
[Imagining Africa]	242	(8)
Joseph Conrad
Selected Letters En Route to the Congo	242	(8)
[Introduction to ``The Congo Diary'' and the ``Up-river Book'']	250	(3)
Zdzislaw Najder
The Congo Diary	253	(26)
Joseph Conrad
Up-river Book	261	(2)
Selected Letters from Africa and After	263	(10)
Geography and Some Explorers	273	(6)
The Author on Art and Literature	279	(28)
Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''	279	(28)
Joseph Conrad
Books	283	(3)
Henry James: An Appreciation	286	(2)
Preface to Youth	288	(2)
Preface to A Personal Record	290	(2)
Selected Letters	292	(15)
Criticism
Contemporary Responses	307	(19)
From Academy and Literature	307	(2)
Edward Garnett
Unsigned Review • From the Manchester Guardian	309	(1)
Unsigned Review • From the Times Literary Supplement	310	(1)
Unsigned Review • From the Athenaeum	311	(1)
From the Speaker	312	(1)
John Masefield
The New Novel	313	(1)
Henry James
Joseph Conrad: A Note	314	(2)
E. M. Forster
A Personal Rememberance	316	(7)
Ford Madox Ford
Joseph Conrad	323	(3)
Virginia Woolf
Essays in Criticism	326	(158)
The Journey Within	326	(10)
Albert Guerard
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness	336	(13)
Chinua Achebe
[Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]	349	(16)
Ian Watt
Heart of Darkness and Racism	365	(11)
Hunt Hawkins
An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness	376	(10)
Peter Brooks
[Imperialism, Impressionism, and the Politics of Style]	386	(10)
Patrick Brantlinger
[Primitivism and the African Woman in Heart of Darkness]	396	(9)
Marianna Torgovnick
The Women of Heart of Darkness	405	(10)
Jeremy Hawthorn
The Failure of Metaphysics	415	(7)
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
Two Visions in Heart of Darkness	422	(7)
Edward W. Said
[Reading, Race, and Representing Others]	429	(15)
Paul B. Armstrong
Cannibalising Traditions: Representation and Critique in Heart of Darkness	444	(11)
Anthony Fothergill
[Masculinity, Modernity, and Homosexual Desire]	455	(8)
Andrew Michael Roberts
Should We Read ``Heart of Darkness''?	463	(11)
J. Hillis Miller
Iconography and the Feminine Ideal	474	(10)
Lissa Schneider
Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now	484	(23)
Conrad's Ethics and the Margins of Apocalypse Now	484	(7)
Louis K. Greiff
Modernism and Vietnam	491	(9)
Margot Norris
``To Boldly Go'': Heart of Darkness and Popular Culture	500	(7)
Lynda J. Dryden
A Chronology	507	(4)
Joseph Conrad
Selected Bibliography	511