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Heart of Darkness: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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Heart of Darkness: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

â€œThis is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students have become intensely interested in reading Conradâ€•largely because of this excellent work.â€ â€•Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. â€œTextual History and Editing Principlesâ€ provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness.
- Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature.
- Fifteen illustrations.
- Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticismâ€•ten of them new to the Fifth Edition,
including an entirely new subsection on film adaptations of Heart of Darkness.
- A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-09-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780712354851

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