Heart of Darkness

by Conrad, Joseph; Kimbrough, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780393955521
• ISBN10: 0393955524
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Text of Heart of Darkness	1	(6)
Author's Note	3	(4)
Heart of Darkness	7	(1)
Backgrounds and Sources	7	(230)
THE CONGO	78	(64)
A Map of the Congo Free State, 1890	78	(1)
Maurice N. Hennessy
[The Congo Free State: A Brief History, 1876 to 1908]	79	(3)
Sir Harry Johnston
[George Grenfell: A Missionary in the Congo]	82	(1)
John Hope Franklin
Stalking George Washington Williams	82	(2)
George Washington Williams
A Report upon the Congo-State and Country to the President of the Republic of the United States of America	84	(16)
John Hope Franklin
[Williams's "Open Letter" to Leopold and the "Railway Report"]	100	(3)
George Washington Williams
An Open Letter to his Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo	103	(13)
George Washington Williams
A Report on the Proposed Congo Railway	116	(4)
John Hope Franklin
[Williams Ignored]	120	(5)
John DeCourcy MacDonnell
[The Visionary King]	125	(1)
Richard Harding Davis
[His Brother's Keeper]	126	(1)
King Leopold II
[The Sacred Mission of Civilization]	126	(5)
A Map of Zaire, 1987	131	(1)
Lynne Rice
Zaire, from Colony to Nation: A Brief History, 1908 to 1987	132	(10)
CONRAD IN THE CONGO	142	(53)
Muriel C. Bradbrook
[Conrad: A Biographical Sketch]	142	(1)
Joseph Conrad
Geography and Some Explorers	143	(5)
Joseph Conrad
["When I Grow Up I Shall Go There"]	148	(1)
Joseph Conrad
Extracts from Correspondence, January 16 to June 18, 1890	148	(7)
Zdzislaw Najder
[Introduction to "The Congo Diary" and the "Up-river Book"]	155	(4)
Joseph Conrad
The Congo Diary	159	(8)
Joseph Conrad
Up-river Book	167	(19)
Joseph Conrad
[Stanley Falls, Early September 1890]	186	(1)
Joseph Conrad
Extracts from Correspondence, September 24 and 26, 1890	187	(3)
G. Jean-Aubry
[Marguerite Poradowska's Letter to Albert Thys]	190	(1)
G. Jean-Aubry
[Letter from Conrad's Uncle]	191	(1)
Joseph Conrad
[Two Final Notes]	192	(1)
Albert J. Guerard
[From Life to Art]	192	(3)
WRITING THE STORY	195	(23)
G. Jean-Aubry
[From Sailor to Novelist]	195	(1)
Edward Garnett
[Art Drawn from Memory]	195	(2)
Richard Curle
[His Piercing Memory]	197	(1)
Ford Madox Ford
[The Setting]	197	(1)
Joseph Conrad
Extracts from Correspondence, July 22, 1896, to December 3, 1902	198	(14)
Ford Madox Ford
[The Ending]	212	(2)
Conrad's Manuscript of Heart of Darkness	214	(4)
"Oh! The horror!"	214	(1)
"Mistah Kurtz--he dead."	215	(1)
"The last word he pronounced was--your name."	216	(1)
...into the heart of an immense darkness.	217	(1)
CONRAD ON LIFE AND ART	218	(19)
[Fidelity: Four Notes]	218	(2)
[The Cruel Sea]	220	(1)
[The Faithful River]	221	(1)
[The World of the Living]	222	(1)
[To Make You See]	223	(3)
Books	226	(3)
[Fiction Is Human History]	229	(2)
[The Symbolic Character of Fiction]	231	(1)
[Explicitness Is Fatal to Art]	232	(1)
[My Manner of Telling]	233	(1)
Arthur Symons
[Every Novel Contains Autobiography]	234	(3)
Criticism	237	(182)
Robert F. Haugh
[Heart of Darkness: Problem for Critics]	239	(4)
Albert J. Guerard
The Journey Within	243	(8)
Chinua Achebe
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness	251	(11)
Wilson Harris
The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands	262	(6)
Frances B. Singh
The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness	268	(12)
C. P. Sarvan
Racism and the Heart of Darkness	280	(5)
Mike Wilmington
Worth the Wait: Apocalypse Now	285	(3)
Robert LaBrasca
Two Visions of "The horror!"	288	(5)
William M. Hagen
Heart of Darkness and the Process of Apocalypse Now	293	(8)
E. N. Dorall
Conrad and Coppola: Different Centres of Darkness	301	(10)
Ian Watt
[Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]	311	(25)
Robert S. Baker
[Watt's Conrad]	336	(9)
Bruce Johnson
Conrad's Impressionism and Watt's "Delayed Decoding"	345	(13)
Garrett Stewart
Lying as Dying in Heart of Darkness	358	(17)
Juliet McLauchlan
The "Value" and "Significance" of Heart of Darkness	375	(16)
Michael Levenson
The Value of Facts in the Heart of Darkness	391	(15)
Robert Kimbrough
Conrad's Youth (1902): An Introduction	406	(13)
A Guide to Bibliography	419