Conrad and masculinity

[摘要] The thesis seeks to demonstrate thatConrad does not fit at all into the manly-heroic tradition which his work is often approached as belonging to. By tracing the entwining of masculine and homoerotic imagery in his major and minor works, as well as in the often neglected latenovels, it is possible to discoverample evidence to suggest that he wouldbe moreaccurately- if somewhat shockingly for critical tradition placed in the tradition of homosexual literature. Appended to the main body of the thesis is a glossary of homosexual codewords- words thatwere widely understood to refer to whatwas then the otherwise unmentionable crime of homosexuality from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This glossary is drawn both from the homosexual prose andpoetryof the era, as well as from whatevidence we haveof wider publicusages in contemporary newspapers, court-reports, diaries, letters, etc.. At present,there is no recognition of, or collation of, the vast majorityof these words in any dictionary of historical or sexual slang.

[发布机构] University:University of Birmingham;Department:School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies, Department of English Literature

[关键词] P Language and Literature;PR English literature