Achebe, Chinua.  "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness."  [Extended critique of Conrad's Heart of Darkness.]  Rpt. in  Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. Robert Kimbrough. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988. 251-262.

Bancroft, William Wallace.  Joseph Conrad:  His Philosophy of Life.  New York, Haskell House, 1964.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z555 1964  First published in 1933 as thesis. University of Pennsylvania.]

Bloom, Harold, ed.  Joseph Conrad.  Modern Critical Views.  New York:  Chelsea House, 1986.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z7496 1986 ].

---, ed.  Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.  Modern Critical Interpretations. New York:  Chelsea House, 1987.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 H477 1987 ]

---, ed.  Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.  Modern Critical Interpretations.  New York:  Chelsea House, 1987.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 L7344 1987  ]

Bradbrook, M. C.  Joseph Conrad: Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, Poland's English Genius.  New York, Russell & Russell, 1965.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z565 1965 ]

Conrad, Joseph.  A Conrad Argosy.  Introd. by William McFee.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, Doran, 1942.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 A15 1942 ]
"Contents:  Youth -- Heart of Darkness -- The Nigger of the Narcissus -- Il Conde -- Gaspar Ruiz -- The Brute -- Typhoon -- The Secret Sharer -- Freya of the Seven Isles -- The Secret Agent -- The Duel -- The End of the Tether -- The Shadow-line -- A Personal Record."

---.  Great Short Works of Joseph Conrad.  Introd. by Jerry Allen. Perennial Classic.  New York: Harper & Row, 1967.   [COCC Library PR6005.O4 A6 1967a ]
Contents:  "An Outpost of Progress--The Lagoon.--The Nigger of the Narcissus.--Youth.--Heart of Darkness.--Typhoon.--The Secret Sharer."

Curle, Richard.  Joseph Conrad: A Study.  Studies of Living Writers by Various Writers Series.  Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, 1914.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z6 1914 ]

Dobrinsky, Joseph.  The Artist in Conrad's Fiction: A Psychocritical Study.  Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, 1989.  [ ORBIS ]

Griffith, John W.  Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma [computer file]:  "Bewildered traveller." Oxford English monographs.  Oxford : Clarendon, 1995. [COCC Library Author:  Griffith, John W. (John Wylie), 1964- ] 
[Rev. of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Oxford University.  Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2000. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.]

Guetti, James L.  The Limits of Metaphor: A Study of Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967.  [COCC Library PS374.R5 G8  ]

Hewitt, Douglas John.  Conrad:  A Reassessment. 2nd ed.  London:  Bowes and Bowes, 1969.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z744 1969 ]  

Hyland, Paul.  The Black Heart: A Voyage into Central Africa.  New York: Holt, 1989.  [ORBIS]

Karl, Frederick Robert.  A Reader's Guide to Joseph Conrad.  New York: Noonday Press, 1960.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z76 1960 ].

Knowles, Owen.  An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Joseph Conrad.  Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire : Harvester Wheatsheaf ; New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1992.  [ORBIS]

Lindqvist, Sven.  Antirasister. The Skull Measurer's Mistake: and Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke out against Racism.  Trans. Joan Tate.  New York : New Press - W.W. Norton, 1997.  [ORBIS]

Lodge, David.  The Art of Fiction:  Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts.  New York: Viking, 1993.  [ORBIS]

London, Bette Lynn.  The Appropriated Voice : Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster, and Woolf.  Ann Arbor:  Univ. of Michigan Press, 1990.   [ORBIS]

Lucas, Michael A.  Aspects of Conrad's Literary Language.  Boulder [Colo.] : Social Science Monographs; Lublin : Maria Curie-Sklodowska University; New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.  [ORBIS ]

McDonald, Peter D.  British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914.  Cambridge, U.K.; & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.   [ORBIS ]

Morf, Gustav.  The Polish Heritage of Joseph Conrad.  1930.  New York: Haskell House, 1965.   [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z78 1965 ]

Moser, Thomas C.  Joseph Conrad:  Achievement and Decline.  1957.  Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1966.   [COCC Library  PR6005.O4 Z784 1966 ]

Mudrick, Marvin, ed.  Conrad: A Collection of Critical Essays. Spectrum Books: Twentieth Century Views Series.   Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z7842 1966  ]

Nadelhaft, Ruth L.  Joseph Conrad.  Feminist Readings Series.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Humanities Press International, 1991.  [COCC Library  PR6005.O4 Z78437 1991 ]

Raval, Suresh.  The Art of Failure:  Conrad's Fiction.  Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986. 
[ ORBIS ]

Rosenfield, Claire.  Paradise of Snakes: An Archetypal Analysis of Conrad's Political Novels.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.   [COCC Library  PR6005.O4 Z788 1967 ]

Roussel, Roy.  The Metaphysics of Darkness: A Study in the Unity and Development of Conrad's Fiction.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. [COCC Library  PR6005.O4 Z7886 1971 ]

Sherry, Norman.  Conrad's Western World.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge Univ. Press, 1971.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z793 1971 ]. 

Snyder, Katherine V.  Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925.   Cambridge, U.K.; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.  [ ORBIS ]

Stallman, R. W., ed.  The Art of Joseph Conrad:  A Critical Symposium.  1960.  Encore ed.  Athens, OH:  Ohio Univ. Press, 1982.  [ORBIS]

Stewart, J. I. M.  Joseph Conrad.  New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z82 1968 ]

Watt, Ian P.  Conrad in the Nineteenth Century.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1979.  [COCC Library PR6005.O4 Z91 1979 ].

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Allen, Brooke.  "Rigorously Equivocal."  Rev. of One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad, by Geoffrey Galt Harpham.  New Criterion 15.6 (Feb. 1997): 66 (4pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9702182746.   [Full text available]

Bell, Millicent.  "James and Conrad: The Fictions of Autobiography."  Sewanee Review 107.4 (Fall 1999): 569 (17pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2718297.   [Full text available]
Abstract:  "Compares how novelists Joseph Conrad and Henry James shared important details about their personal lives through their works. Exploration of the linkage of character and destiny; James' childhood awareness of his destiny to be a man of letters; Conrad's suggestion that the true self was not invariably expressed in life."

Brown, Tony C.  "Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier:  The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness."  Studies in the Novel 32.1 (Spring 2000): 14 (15pp).   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2962079.   [Full text available]
Abstract: "Presents a critical analysis of European colonialism in the former Belgian Congo and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Thesis that cultural psychosis is a frontier phenomenon in the novel as an operation of darkness or evil; Interpretation of the historical context of the Congo Free State in 1909 as an image of Hell on earth; Post-colonial critique of European imperialism and the irony of western civilization as a perversion."

Chaddock, Gail Russell.  "An Unlikely Translator with a Special Passion for Her Work."  Christian Science Monitor 30 Apr. 1997: 13.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9705080430.   [Full text available]  Abstract:  "Interviews Odette Lamolle, who translated all 24 of Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski's novel into French. Background information on Lamolle; Comments from Lamolle; Details on Conrad's novels."

Coroneos, Con.  "The Cult of Heart of Darkness."  Essays in Criticism 45.1 (Jan. 1995): 1 (23pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9503303108.  Abstract:  "Discusses the purposes of critical practice with a focus on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Characterization and narrative; Review of previous attempts to interpret the book."

Ellman, Lucy.  "Into Africa."  New Statesman & Society 28 July 1995: 33.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9508211259.   [Full text available]  Abstract: "Reviews television programs shown in Great Britain. Heart of Darkness, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad; 1973 documentary of former Uganda president Idi Amin."

Hochschild, Adam.  "'Mr. Kurtz, I presume.'"  New Yorker 14 Apr. 1997: 40 (8pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 133023.   Abstract:  "Focuses on Mr. Kurtz, a fictitious character in the novels of Joseph Conrad. Similarity of Mr. Kurtz character with officers in Zaire's history; Possible Kurtz prototypes; Novel entitled Heart of Darkness; Reviews of the novels written by Conrad."

Konan, Amani.  "Paule Marshall: A Conradian Praisesong."  Critical Arts 9.1 (1995): 21 (9pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9603276857.    [Full text available] Abstract: "Presents a comparative analysis of the book Praisesong for the Widow, by Paule Marshall and Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Characters' reactions; Location; Connotation of darkness; Treatment of the theme of the double; Narrative strategies."

Levine, Mark.  "Humanities."  Rev. of  The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, edited by J.H. Stape.  University of Toronto Quarterly 67.1 (Winter 1997-1998): 287 (3pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 312949.   [Full text available]

Merali, Arzu.  "Diary."  New Statesman 27 Feb. 1998: 6.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 356142.   [Full text available]
Abstract:  "Discusses the author's views regarding sanctions on Iraq and Saddam Hussein and reviews the book Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Psychological effect of war on children; Influence of media on the situation; Triumph of Annan's efforts to persuade Saddam to agree on the weapons inspections."

Muller, Heiner.  "'Heart of Darkness Adapted from Joseph Conrad '[Poem]."  Poetry 173.1 (Oct./Nov. 1998): 29.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 1207830.   [Full text available]

Kaplan, Robert D.  "Conrad's Nostromo and the Third World."  National Interest 51 (spring 1998): 98 (5pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 358019 .   [Full text available]
Abstract:  "Examines the work of Joseph Conrad, with focus on his book Nostromo.  Contents of the book; Information suggestion that the book is one of Conrad's best and more difficult work; Description of the book; Suggestion that bourgeois societies lack imagination; Conclusions reached."

"Noted Writers of the Past."  World Almanac & Book of Facts 2000 (1999): 353 (4pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2774882.   [Full text available]
Abstract: "Lists noted writers of the past including: Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, Hans Christian Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Bradstreet, Pearl S. Buck, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens; Zane Grey, Victor Hugo, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, and others."

"Notes on Current Books: Literary Studies."  Rev. of Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma, by John W. Griffith.  Virginia Quarterly Review 72.3 (Summer 1996): 86.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9607104263.   [Full text available]

Passaro, Vince.  "A Flapping of Scolds."  Harper's Magazine Jan 1997: 62 (7pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9703310261.   [Full text available]
Abstract: "Reviews the books `T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form,' by Anthony Julius, `Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World' by David Denby, `Heart of Darkness,' by Joseph Conrad and `Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917,' by T.S. Eliot."

Rangarajan, Sudarsan.  "Conrad's Heart of Darkness."  Explicator 56.3 (Spring 1998): 139 (2pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 556037.   [Full text available]
Abstract:  "Interprets the short story Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Interpretation of the story's protagonist; Overview of the story."

Reid, S. W.  "Conrad in Print and on Disk."  Studies in the Novel 27.3 (Fall 1997): 375 (12pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9512191714.   [Full text available]
Abstract: "Focuses on the literary works of Joseph Conrad. Literary style of Conrad; Composition process of the novels; Revisions in Conrad's works; Absence of editorial commentary."

Rivero, Albert J.  "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the 'Blank Spaces' of Colonial Fictions."  Studies in English Literature 39.3 (Summer 1999): 443 (20pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2255125.   [Full text available] 
Abstract:  "Presents an interpretation of the books Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad and Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn. Similarities of the books; Hierarchical ideologies of the books; How the critics described Oroonoko."

Schwartz, Daniel R.  "Conrad's Quarrel with Politics in Nostromo."  College English 59.5 (Sept. 1997): 548 (21 pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9710112352.   [Full text available]  
Abstract:  "Examines the work of Joseph Conrad with focus on politics. Reference made to his book Nostromo; Criticism of his work; Background information on Conrad's life; Conclusions reached."

Shaffer, Brian W.  Rev. of Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity, by Robert Hampson.  Studies in the Novel 26.4 (Winter 1994): 442 (3pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9502075553. 

Simpson, D.  "Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century."  Studies in English Literature 30.4 (Fall 1990): 715 (24pp).   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9103041183.   [Full text available]
Abstract:  "Reviews recent studies in the nineteenth century, including Macmillan's Literary Lives, Cedric Watt's Joseph Conrad, Michael O'Neill's Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Chitham's Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Camille Paglia's `Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson,' and more."

Skilleas, Ole Martin.  "Restraint in the Darkness."  English Studies 76.1 (Jan. 1995): 52 (12pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9502213963.
Abstract:  "Discusses the use of restraint in uniting and illuminating the stylistic and thematic elements of the story Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Heuristic and thematic function of restraint; Relation between language and reality; Description of the accountant, a central character in the story, at the outer station."

Sudbery, Rodie.  "Conrad's Dark Heart."  Rev. of Joseph Conrad, ed. Andrew Michael Roberts.  Times Higher Education Supplement 19 March 1999: 27.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 1771755.   [Full text available]

Taylor, Derek.  "Conrad's Heart of Darkness."  Explicator 56.4 (Summer 1998): 195 (4pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 1019986.   [Full text available]
Abstract:  "Presents a literary interpretation of the short story Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Plot of the story; Characters."

Thompson, Christina A.  "Anthropology's Conrad."  Journal of Pacific History 30.1 (1995): 53 (23pp). EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 1019986.
Abstract:  "Shows how imperial adventure fiction provided a charter for British social anthropology in the early years of the 19th century. Links between novelist Joseph Conrad and anthropologist Bronislaw Manilowski; Biographies of Conrad and Manilowski; Malinowski in the Tobriand Islands; Parallels between Malinowski's `Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term' and Conrad's fiction."

Wollaeger, Mark A.  "Killing Stevie:  Modernity, Modernism, and Mastery in Conrad and Hitchcock."  MLQ [Modern Language Quarterly] 58.3 (Sept. 1997): 323 (28pp).  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9711072651.   
Abstract:  "Profiles authors Joseph Conrad and Alfred Hitchcock and examines their work. Information on Hitchcock's ability to exploit the materiality of film viewers; Reference to Conrad's success; Background information on Hitchcock's successful career."

Africa and Africans in Conrad's Heart of Darkness  
Candice Bradley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, originally a Lawrence Univ. Freshman Studies Lecture, 24 Jan. 1996 - now courtesy of James Banks, Willamette Univ.; & Free Speech Television: 
http://www.freespeech.org/james/conrad/heart.htm  
Bradley explores the setting of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness from an anthropological perspective -  many/all of Bradley's original links have been broken, but try those given below . . . :
...Heart of Darkness (Mark Dintenfass, Prof. of English, originally a Lawrence Univ. Freshman Studies Lecture, 1996 - now courtesy of James Banks, Willamette Univ.; & Free Speech Television): http://www.freespeech.org/james/conrad/dintenfass_heart.htm 
Dintenfass approaches Conrad's novel as a fellow novelist:  "Novelists . . . are not generally in the business of abstracting orderly ideas about experience. They are rather in the business of re-creating and communicating the rich complexities of experience itself. Their purpose is to get the reader to re-live an experience in some important and concrete way, with all its complexity and messiness, all its darkness and ambiguity, intact."
....Marlow’s Lie (Richard Yatzeck, Prof. of Slavic Literature, originally a Lawrence Univ. Freshman Studies Lecture, 1996 - now courtesy of James Banks, Willamette Univ.; & Free Speech Television):
http://www.freespeech.org/james/conrad/yatzeck_heart.htm

African Slave Trade & European Imperialism
African Timelines Part III: 15th - early 19th centuries
(Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College, 1997-2000):
 http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm 
 Anti-Colonialism & Reconstruction
African Timelines Part IV:  19th - mid-20th centuries
(Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College, 1997-2000):
 http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline4.htm 
...both part of Cora Agatucci's HUM 211 African Timelines: History, Orature, Literature, & Film 
Table of Contents:  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm 

Apocalypse Now (Panu S. Virtanen)
"...an exploration into the makings of the film and the people and inspirations that led to its creation"
 http://film.tierranet.com/films/a.now/ 
"Apocalypse Now is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness ( 1902 ). Main character in the book is Marlow, who tells about his experiences in Africa. There he led an expedition into to one of the darkest part of jungle. The darkness he witnesses is however also moral. He meets a mysterious ivory dealing agent Mr. Kurtz, who is the embodiment of evil."
...Apocalypse Now Screenplay:  http://film.tierranet.com/films/a.now/script.html 
...Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness "follows closely the actual events of Conrad's Congo journey, tells of the narrator's fascination by a mysterious white man, Kurtz, who, by his eloquence and hypnotic personality, dominates the brutal tribesmen around him. Full of contempt for the greedy traders who exploit the natives, the narrator cannot deny the power of this figure of evil who calls forth from him something approaching reluctant loyalty."
Read about the author and the movie, plus links to e-texts, literary criticism, & a listing of Conrad's works:  http://film.tierranet.com/films/a.now/conrad.htm
...Site index:  http://film.tierranet.com/films/a.now/ix.html 

Apocalypse Now (Internet Movie Database)
1979 film, dir. Frances Ford Coppola, based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Apocalypse%20Now 

Battlefield: Vietnam  (PBS Online,  Middle/High School/College:, 1999)
"This series objectively examines the military realities of the Vietnam War. 
Companion website: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
Multimedia timeline of the major battles of the Vietnam War,
evolution of military air power, siege of Khe Sanh (Shockwave activity), and more.

Berry, Robert.  "Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky."  Deep South 1.2 (May 1995):    http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol1no2/berry1_issue2.html  
ABSTRACT:  "Though the critical establishment has long since labelled both artists as psychological, even political novelists, Conrad and Dostoevsky are also authors of what is usually called 'popular' fiction. Under this broad, notoriously problematic heading, are included such independent genres as 'adventure, thriller and detective writing'; 'romance' literature; and Gothic fiction.' Each of these literary forms, I would argue, can be claimed to exist in Conrad and Dostoevsky's complex fictional worlds. It is the world of 'Gothic' fiction that I shall focus on." 

Biography of Joseph Conrad ( Britannica.com)
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/garcia/conrad/page6.htm 

Brown, Douglas.  "Understanding Joseph Conrad."
http://www.penguinclassics.com/US/world_classics/000006.html 
An excerpt from "From Heart of Darkness to Nostromo: An Approach to Conrad,"
  in The New Pelican Guide to English Literature 7. From James to Eliot.  From Penguin Classics, 1983. 

Conrad, Joseph (About Literature: Classic)
"Internet resources on Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim is the first of his major novels. It appeared
in 1900, the year after Heart of Darkness, which is perhaps his best-known work."
 http://classiclit.about.com/cs/josephconrad/index.htm  

Empire: People and Passions that Changed the World (PBS Online, June 2001)
will include Queen Victoria's Empire & a companion website:
 http://www.pbs.org/empires/ 

Galloway, Shirley.  "Joseph Conrad: The Sense of Self."  
http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/essays/conrad.html 
ABSTRACT:  "Joseph Conrad's stories ' The Secret Sharer,' Heart of Darkness, and ' The Shadow Line' share a number of themes. All three stories deal with a process of maturing that involves the loss of youthful illusions, a process usually precipitated by an actual 'trial' that challenges the protagonist's professional skills as well as his assumptions about his identity and sanity. In successfully dealing with the crisis, the protagonist reconstructs his identity and develops moral ideas rooted in acknowledgement of his own and others' human weaknesses and thus of men's necessary interdependence." 
. . . About [ Shirley Galloway] the author:  http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/index.html
Other Online articles by Shirley Galloway:
. . . "An Inglorious Enterprise: Empire, Ideology, and Transformation  in Heart of Darkness and A Passage to India":
http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/essays/hdar-pind.html
ABSTRACT: "Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India are two examples of literature about Empire. Both works utilize Britain's Age of Empire as a backdrop for the narratives and they explore British attitudes and behavior in the exotic locales of the imperial frontier. The two selections are also prominent in being among the most brilliant and complex of the genre. Using a Marxist critical approach, this study will compare and contrast the two works as examples of "realistic" fiction which both represents and critiques the society in which it is produced." 
. . . " Marlow and Mrs. Moore":
 http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/essays/ideol.html 
ABSTRACT [ Character Analysis]: "The relations between the colonizer and the colonized affect both psychologically. Heart of Darkness and A Passage to India feature British characters who have internalized the ideological assumptions of their natural superiority to the Africans and Indians respectively yet many, when actually carrying out their imperialistic duties distant from the mother culture, often find their assumptions strained not only because of the stress of the tropics but also because these assumptions are not inherently 'true' but are components of a version of reality that justify the British Empire's existence. The characters in both novels deal differently with the fundamental contradiction between systematic dehumanization for economic gain and the ideological justification of 'civilizing' the natives. For some, the received cultural assumptions become more entrenched as E. M. Forster so clearly shows in his portraits of the members of the English Club in Chandrapore. Others are not able to resolve the contradictions and sink into madness, as Kurtz does in Heart of Darkness, or are not able to recover from disillusion like Mrs. Moore. Still others experience a psychological crisis like Miss Quested and Marlow but learn to live with their revelations." 
 . . . "A Passage to India by E.M. Forster":
 http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/essays/india.html  

Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
(Encyclopedia of the Self, Mark Zimmerman, 1999-2001):
http://www.selfknowledge.com/hdark10a.htm 
. . . including Hypertext Meanings & Commentary
http://encyclopediaindex.com/c/hdark10a.htm 

Heart of Darkness Addlink Page (Univ. of Texas-Austin )
 http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~contests/conrad/CONRADaddlink.htm 
Part of the course: The Development of Empire: Narratives of Colonialism and Resistance in British Literature The Development of Empire: Narratives of Colonialism and Resistance in British Literature (Prof. Bret Benjamin, Eng 316: Masterworks of British Literature, Fall 1995, Univ. of Texas-Austin):  http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/  

Heart of Darkness Page (Eng 316 students, Univ. of Texas-Austin, originally created 1995; rev. 1998):  Explores "the issues of: light vs. dark, or colonized vs. uncolonized; the superiority of the English and how that relates to other texts written; and Conrad's own racism in the book."
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit3/studentprojects/conrad/conrad.html
. . . Conrad, Joseph - Light and Darkness
"THE CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK AS RELATED TO THE CIVILIZED AND THE UNCIVILIZED IN HEART OF DARKNESS" - Examine several motifs in the author's masterpiece, "Heart of Darkness," including racism and the use of light and dark as symbols:
 http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit3/studentprojects/conrad/lightdark.html  

Hilton, Nelson (Dept. of English, Univ. of Georgia-Athens).  "Hypograms, Hypocrites, and Hippos: Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Ch. 8 of Lexis Complexes: Literary Interventions, by Prof. Nelson Hilton (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1995). Linked to Eng 232, Spring 1998:
 http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~232/chap8.html  

Imperialism in Africa (Brett Silva, IB History Page, Pleasant Valley High School, Chico, California USA) - a collection of student essays on the "theme of Imperialism in Africa for either Britain, France, or Germany":
 http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/imperialism/index.html  
 Scramble for Africa (Brett Silva, IB History Page, Pleasant Valley High School, Chico, California USA) - a collection of student essays on people, events, and groups that shaped the European Scramble for Africa in the 19th century:
 http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/scramble/index.html 

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) - Eldritch Press
 http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/jc/conrad.html  
Commentary & criticism on The Secret Agent and others of Conrad's works. 

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):  Online Literary Criticism Collection
(Internet Public Library): http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=con-44 

Joseph Conrad Society - United Kingdom (Dr. Linda Dryden, Scottish Centre for the Book, Dept. of Print Media, Publishing and Communication, Napier Univ., Edinburgh EH10 5HH - Scotland, UK): http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/conrad.html

Kovaleski, Serge. F.  "Unabomber 'Based His Life on Novel.'" 
 (Guardian Weekly 21 July 1996: rpt. from The Washington Post).  
  http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/jc/sa/una.html 

Links of Interest to Conradians (Joseph Conrad Society of America and Editors of the Cambridge Conrad Edition):
 http://www.library.kent.edu/speccoll/interest.html  

Missionary Periodicals Database (Yale Divinity School & Currents of World Christianity Center, Univ. of Cambridge)
 http://namp.divinity.yale.edu/NAMP.taf 
Good resource for study of British missionary movements, religion, or the British empire. Browsable by keyword search, region or periodical title.  Full entries include publisher, volume numbers, frequency, circulation, price, region of work, features, and some comments. 

Mitchell, Angus.  "New Light on the Heart of Darkness."  History Today (Dec. 1999).
Rpt. WWW sources:
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,314353,00.html 
http://www.britannica.com/magazine?ebsco_id=314353 
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1373/12_49/58170496/p1/article.jhtml  
Abstracts:  Deals with Joseph Conrad's `Heart of Darkness' and the novel's story based on grim reality underlying the fiction -- i.e. Congo slavery by Belgian King Leopold II -- and the fight against slavery that the novel inspired.  Literary debate on the book; Reasons behind the emergence of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society." 

The Mystery of Mr. Kurtz: "His was an impenetrable darkness."
(Aaron Krall, Aimee Lanoue, and Matthew Pavesich, 1998;
EN360: Twentieth Century Literatures in English, Univ. of St. Francis, Joliet, IL)
 http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/kurtzweb/kurtz.htm 

Reforming the Heart of Darkness: The Congo Reform Movement in England and the United States. (Ed. Jim Zwick, BoondocksNet.com, May 13, 2001).
"At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, King Leopold of Belgium gained international support for his creation of the Congo Free State through proposals to end slavery in the Congo, protect the rights of the natives, and guarantee free trade. In the popular media he was often portrayed as a philanthropist who was selflessly devoting his efforts to rescue and 'civilize' the peoples of central Africa. Five years later, a young writer, inspired to adventure by the celebrated travels of Henry M. Stanley and believing the glowing reports of Leopold's rule, got a job on a steamer headed up the Congo River. Joseph Conrad turned his Congo experiences into Heart of Darkness, published in 1899. During the next decade, Leopold's rule of the Congo would increasingly become viewed with reference to the last words of Conrad's fictional ivory company agent, the depraved Mr. Kurtz: 'The horror! The horror!'":
http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/  
. . . Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad 
"First published in 1899, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was an important literary intervention into the emerging debate about King Leopold's brutal rule of the Congo Free State . . ." 
E-text including revisions Conrad made in later editions of the story):  http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/congo_heart.html 
These webpages are part of a larger excellent website with many more resources relevant to U.K.:
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 (Ed. Jim Zwick, Boondocksnet.com, 1995-2001:
 http://www.boondocksnet.com/ail98-35.html  (May 7, 2001).

Resources for the Study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
(Martin Irvine, Georgetown Univ.)
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/conrad/conrad.htm 
. . . including E-text of Heart of Darkness:
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/conrad/heart.of.darkness.txt

Classic Literature (About.com, 2001; by "guide" Esther Lombardi, M.A:  classiclit.guide@about.com )
(About Literature: Classic)
. . . Conrad, Joseph:  http://classiclit.about.com/arts/classiclit/msub-jconrad.htm 
. . . British Literature:  http://classiclit.about.com/cs/britishliteratur13/index_3.htm 
Literary Times and Terms
Find information and resources: terms, details about literary language.
URL: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-terms/bl-lit-glossary-n.htm (About Literature: Classic)

James Joyce on the Beach - Search Engine Tallies Most Popular Literary Authors
A new survey by HotBot reveals which literary authors are scoring high among online
searchers.
URL: http://publishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa071599.htm (About Publishing)

Mark Twain's Anti-Imperialist Writings - Historical Contexts
Historical contexts of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings, from the earliest writings on
Hawaii to later writings on the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, and the
Boxer Rebellion in China.
URL: http://marktwain.about.com/library/guides/bl_guide_ai08.htm (About Mark Twain)

Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness advances and withdraws as in a
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The Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
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Conrad, Joseph - Mitsuharu's Page
Find texts, scholarly resources and a chronology of the life and work of the Polish-born
author who became a master of the English language.
URL: http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Conrad.html

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness SparkNotes
Resource provides study questions, summaries and commentaries, and discussion
forums on this classic novel.
URL: http://www.sparknotes.com/guides/heart

Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness advances and withdraws as in a
succession of long dark waves borne by an incoming tide. The waves encroach fairly
evenly on the shore, and presently a few more feet of sand have been 
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