Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Gene M. Moore is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam.

Moore has assembled something new and valuable, deliberately avoiding some of the usually anthologized material while pushing the boundaries of critical commentary... Not only are all of the selected works provocative and substantive in their own way, each inviting us to reconsider the text's contexts and our own assumptions, so too the collection as a whole - by juxtaposing historical tidbit and serious study, theoretical meditation and comic relief - brims with a life which will gratify the hungry curiosity of the general reader and prompt the more reticent student to exclaim, 'Cool!? Joseph Conrad Today

• Introduction ; 1. An Outpost of Progress ; 2. Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent ; 3. From The Crime of the Congo ; 4. Joseph Conrad's First Cruise in the Nellie ; 5. To the End of the Night ; 6. The Typescript of 'The Heart of Darkness' ; 7. The Feast, by J*s*ph C*nr*d ; 8. Conrad's Impressionism ; 9. Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ; 10. The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad's Heart of Darkness ; 11. Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Response ; 12. Jungle Fever ; 13. A Chat with Joseph Conrad ; Suggested Reading