(P/B) HEART OF DARKNESS

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This edition includes a newly edited text based on the 1902 edition. Textual History and Editing Principles provides an overview of the controversies and ambiguities surrounding Heart of Darkness. Included are background and source materials, and contemporary responses to the novella along with essays in criticism, including a new section on film adaptations. (From the publisher)

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List of Illustrations
Introduction
-The Text of Heart of Darkness-
Heart of Darkness
Textual Appendix
Textual History and Editing Principles
Emendations and Substantive Textual Variants
Manuscript and Typescript Revisions
-Backgrounds and Contexts-
IMPERIALISM AND THE CONGO
David Van Reybrouck - [Congo under Leopold II, 1885-1908]
King Leopold II - [The Civilizing Mission]
George Washington Williams - An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo
Roger Casement - The Congo Report
Mark Twain - King Leopold's Soliloquy
Adam Hochschild - Meeting Mr. Kurtz
Allan Simmons - [Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]
NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD RACE
G. W. F. Hegel - [The African Character]
Charles Darwin - On the Races of Man
Alfred Russel Wallace - [Are Humans One Race or Many?]
Francis Galton - The Comparative Worth of Different Races
Herbert Spencer - [Emotional and Intellectual Nature of Primitive Man]
Karl Pearson - [The Struggle of Race against Race]
Maarten Couttenier - Congolese Races?
CONRAD IN THE CONGO
Joseph Conrad - [Imagining Africa]
- Selected Letters en Route to the Congo
- The Congo Diary
- Up-River Book
- Selected Letters from Africa and After
- Geography and Some Explorers
THE AUTHOR ON ART AND LITERATURE
Joseph Conrad - Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
- Henry James: An Appreciation
- Preface to Youth
- Preface to A Personal Record
- Selected Letters
-Criticism-
CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES
Edward Garnett - From Academy and Literature
Unsigned Review - From The Manchester Guardian
Unsigned Review - From The Athenaeum
Henry James - The New Novel
E. M. Forster - Joseph Conrad: A Note
Ford Madox Ford - A Personal Remembrance
Virginia Woolf - Joseph Conrad
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
Albert J. Guerard - The Journey Within
Chinua Achebe - An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Ian Watt - [Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]
Hunt Hawkins - Heart of Darkness and Racism
Peter Brooks - An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Jeremy Hawthorn - The Women of Heart of Darkness
Edward W. Said - Two Visions in Heart of Darkness
J. Hillis Miller - Should We Read "Heart of Darkness"?
Benita Parry - The Moment and Afterlife of Heart of Darkness
Susan Jones - [Physical and Narrative Movement in Heart of Darkness]
Richard J. Ruppel - [Homosocial Bonding and Homosexual Desire in Heart of Darkness]
Adriana Cavarero - ["Horrorism": Terror, Violence, and Vulnerability]
Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy - [The Ecology of Heart of Darkness]
Urmila Seshagiri - [Race and Modernist Form]
Nidesh Lawtoo - Heart of Darkness and the Horror of Mimesis
FILM ADAPTATIONS
Robert L. Carringer - [Orson Welles: From Heart of Darkness to Citizen Kane]
Seymour Chatman - 2½ Film Versions of Heart of Darkness
Pamela Demory - Apocalypse Now Redux. Returns to Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography