The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading

Dryden, Linda

Abstract

This book chapter takes a historicist approach to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It relies on theories of historicim and ethnography and cites Clifford Geertx and James Clifford as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Publication Date: 2007
• Deposit Date: Jun 8, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 8, 2009
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 83-91
• Book Title: Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness
• Keywords: Conrad; Heart of Darkness; new historicism; Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; post-colonial criticsm; nineteenth century thought; humanity
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2634
• Contract Date: Jun 8, 2009