Titlebook: Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance; Linda Dryden Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000 fiction

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Introduction,udies by placing a quartet of Conrad’s early Malay tales, ., ‘Karain’ (1898), and ., in the context of the literature of imperial romance and adventure that was enjoying such popularity when Conrad began his literary career.

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,‘Karain’: Constructing the Romantic Subject, he calls this tale ‘a(chǎn) tricky thing’ and identifies exotic elements that would appeal to a magazine readership: ‘the usual forests river—stars—wind sunrise, and so on—and lots of secondhand Conradese in it. There is only 6000 words in it so it can’t bring in many shekels…Don’t you think I am a lost

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mance. 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 we

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Book 2000sumptions 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.