Heart of Darkness – Narrative Ambiguity and Imperialist Anxieties
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a novel preoccupied with the concept of ’empire’. It also has a rather problematic relationship with the realist aesthetic which was the predominant nineteenth-century literary mode. This article aims to place Conrad’s novel within an imperialist context, assessing some of your underlying fears, like hidden facets from the individual […]