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This Routledge publication offers the first critical study dedicated to Joseph Conrad's use of literary romance traditions. The author explores how Conrad engages with the genre to invigorate his work throughout his entire career. By examining how he borrows from, alludes to, and subverts romance tropes, the text reveals his complex relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel. Readers will learn how Conrad uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations. This approach makes visible the ethical problems associated with Europe's colonial project. This scholarly work provides deep insight into the ways Conrad's stylistic choices interact with the literary traditions of his time.

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This Routledge book serves as the first critical study devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of romance techniques.

The text examines how Conrad borrows from and subverts the tropes of the romance tradition.

The author explores how Conrad's engagement with romance invigorated his literary work throughout his career.

The study analyzes how Conrad uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations.

This work investigates how Conrad's use of genre reveals ethical problems within Europe's colonial project.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
29 November 2017
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05 January 2018

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