Hawthorn, Jeremy. Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad.(Book review)

Studies in the Novel | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

HAWTHORN, JEREMY. Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction o f Joseph Conrad. London: Continuum, 2007. 192 pp. $110.

Setting himself the task of describing "how pervasive--how near-universal--the sexual and the erotic are in the pages of Conrad's fictions" (11) Jeremy Hawthorn explores Joseph Conrad's fascination with sexual passion, which, as he argues, often "interpenetrates" Conrad's public or political themes. But despite this promising opening claim, Hawthorn's analysis of Conrad's interest in sexuality and the erotic is anchored in a highly formalistic and ...

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