| Paul B. Armstrong is Dean of the College and Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form, Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation, The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford and The Phenomenology of Henry James. He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of E.M. Forster’s Howards End. |
| Introduction The Text of Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness Textual Appendix Backgrounds and Contexts IMPERIALISM IN THE CONGO Encyclopedia Britannica • "Congo Free State" (Tenth Edition, 1902) [European Reaction to Leopold’s Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910) King Leopold II • [The Sacred Mission of Civilization] George Washington Williams • "An Open Letter to his Serene Majesty Leopold II" Roger Casement·The Congo Report Edmund D. Morel • [Property and Trade versus Forced Production] Adam Hochschild • "Meeting Mr. Kurtz" Alan Simmons • [Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities] ILLUSTRATIONS NINETEENH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD RACE C.W.F.Hegel·[The African Character] Charles Darwin·On the Races of Man Alfred Russel Wallace·[Are Humans One Race or Many？] Francis Galton·The Comparativve Worth of Different Races Benjamin Kidd·[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races] Peter Edgerly Firchow·Race,Ethnicity,Nationality,Empire CONRAD IN THE CONGO THE AUTHOR ON ART AND LITERATURE …… Criticism CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES Edward Garnett • From Academy and Literature Unsigned Review • From the Manchester Guardian Unsigned Review • From the Times Literary Supplement Unsigned Review • From the Athenaeum John Masefield • From the Speaker Henry James • The New Novel E.M. Forster • Joseph Conrad: A Note Ford Madox Ford • A Personal Remembrance Virginia Woolf • Joseph Conrad …… Joseph Conrad:A Chronology Selected Bibliography |
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