Contents
Selections in bold are new to the Fourth Edition
- Introduction
- The Text of 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"
- Sir 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
- The Civilizing Mission
- Map of Congo Free State
- Young Conrad
- Conrad’s Steamer in the Congo
- "The King of the Belgians"
- Villagers Visting the Steamer
- Fleeing from the Steam-Whistle
- An Abandoned Station
- Governor-General’s Inspection
- Constructing the Railway
- "Prisoners"
- Punishment
- Hands
- An Ivory Caravan
- Spoils of Empire
- NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD RACE
- G.W.F. Hegel • [The African Character]
- Charles Darwin • On the Races of Man
- Alfred Russell Wallace • [Are Humans One Race or Many?]
- Sir Francis Galton • The Comparative Worth of Different Races
- Benjamin Kidd • [Social Progress and the Rivalry of Races]
- Peter Edgerly Firchow • Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Empire
- CONRAD IN THE CONGO
- Joseph Conrad • [Imagining Africa]
- Selected Letters en Route to the Congo
- The Congo Diary
- Up-River Book
- Selected Letters from Africa and After
- Geography and Some Explorers
- THE AUTHOR ON ART AND LITERATURE
- Joseph Conrad • Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
- Books
- Henry James: An Appreciation
- Preface to Youth
- Preface to A Personal Record
- Selected Letters
- Criticism
- CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES
- Reviews of Heart of Darkness
- 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
- ESSAY IN CRITICISM
- Albert Guerard • The Journey Within
- Chinua Achebe • An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
- Ian Watt • [Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]
- Hunt Hawkins • Heart of Darkness and Racism
- Peter Brooks • An Unreadable Report: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
- Patrick Brantlinger • [Imperialism, Impressionism, and the Politics of Style]
- Marianna Torgovnick • [Primitivism and the African Woman in Heart of Darkness]
- Jeremy Hawthorn • The Women of Heart of Darkness
- Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan • The Failure of Metaphysics
- Edward Said • Two Visions of Heart of Darkness
- Paul B. Armstrong • [Reading, Race, and Representing Others]
- Anthony Fothergill • Cannibalising Traditions: Representation and Critique in Heart of Darkness
- Andrew Michael Roberts • [Masculinity, Modernity, and Homosexual Desire]
- J. Hillis Miller • Should We Read Heart of Darkness?
- Lissa Schneider • Iconography and the Feminine Ideal
- HEART OF DARKNESS AND APOCALYPSE NOW
- Louis K. Greiff • Conrad’s Ethics and the Margins of Apocalypse Now
- Margot Norris • Modernism and Vietnam
- Lynda J. Dryden • "To Boldly Go:" Heart of Darkness and Popular Culture
- Joseph Conrad: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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