More than a century after its publication(1899),Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and argualy Conrad's finest work.
This Notron Critical Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text of the novel.An expanded Textual Appendix alows the reder to follow Conrad's revisions at different stages of the creative process.A Chronology has been added,and the Selected Bibli-ography has been revised and updated.
【目录】
Introduction
The Text of Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Textual Appendix
Backgrounds and Contexts
IMPERIALISM IN THE CONGO
Encyclopedia Britannica • "Congo Free State" (Tenth Edition, 1902)
[European Reaction to Leopold’s Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910)
King Leopold II • [The Sacred Mission of Civilization]
George Washington Williams • "An Open Letter to his Serene Majesty Leopold II"
Roger Casement·The Congo Report
Edmund D. Morel • [Property and Trade versus Forced Production]
Adam Hochschild • "Meeting Mr. Kurtz"
Alan Simmons • [Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]
ILLUSTRATIONS
NINETEENH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD RACE
C.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 Comparativve Worth of Different Races
Benjamin Kidd·[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races]
Peter Edgerly Firchow·Race,Ethnicity,Nationality,Empire
CONRAD IN THE CONGO
THE AUTHOR ON ART AND LITERATURE
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Criticism
CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES
Edward Garnett • From Academy and Literature
Unsigned Review • From the Manchester Guardian
Unsigned Review • From the Times Literary Supplement
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