lleartofI>arkne~ Page 1 lleartofI>arkne~ I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor
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examined the impressive range of unusual postmodern and other avant garde strategies of …

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celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference …

In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity,
homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the …

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the
fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century …

One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and
British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the …

OR ONE HUNDRED YEARS, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and
taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European …

This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-
evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the …

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable
concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an …