The Madwoman in the Antique:Body and Gaze in Conrad’s ‘The Return’
“The Return” is often considered one of Conrad’s less successful works and yet it offers an acerbic, if oblique, critique of Victorian approach to gender and morality. The short story revisits the hackneyed issue of infidelity but only as a pretext to reflect on the way Victorian women were fetishis...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/6880 |