Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction

ROBERT HAMPSON is Reader in English Literature at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity, and co-editor (with Andrew Gibson) of Conrad and Theory. He has edited various works by Conrad and Kipling and is a former editor of The Conradian.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Problems of Historiography The Advancement of Learning The Inward Turn: Wallace and Clifford Cultural Diversity and Originary Identity: Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands Encountering the Other: Race and Gender in 'The Lagoon' and 'Karain' Speech and Writing in Lord Jim Absence and Presence in Victory Dialogue and Cross-dressing in The Rescue Homecoming Notes Index

'Hampson's analysis of Conrad's five novels and two short stories set in the nineteenth-century Malay world is of an intimidatingly wide scope and impressive depth...[A] highly erudite and original literary critique for advanced students of Conrad's oeuvre, cultural studies, and English Literature.' - Carool Kersten