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224 Notes
28 Hawthorn, Joseph Conrad: Language and Fictional Self-Consciousness, p. 71.
29 Heath, ‘Male Feminism’, p. 26.
30 Wollaeger suggests that ‘the only author we can discuss with complete
certainty’ in the context of ‘the coercive presence of the author in the text’
is ‘what Bakhtin has called the “secondary author”, “the image of the
author” created within the text by the “primary” or historical author’ (FS,
130–1).
31 Silverman, The Acoustic Mirror, p. 49.
32 Silverman, The Acoustic Mirror, p. 48.
33 See Chapter 3 above, note 1.
34 Gallop, p. 7.
35 Gallop, p. 7.
36 Reilly, p. 143.
37 Guerard, pp. 199–202 (p. 200) and see note 7 above.
38 On this see Andrew Michael Roberts, ‘Action, Passivity and Gender in
Conrad’s Chance’, in CG, 89–104.
39 Letter to Marguerite Poradowska, 16 October 1891, CL, I, 97–9.
Chapter 5 Epistemology, Modernity and Masculinity
1 Watt, Conrad in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 357, 174.
2 J. Hillis Miller, Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers (London:
Oxford University Press, 1966), p. 5.
3 Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1991).
4 On the elements of scepticism and nihilism in Conrad’s ‘conscious philosophy’
and their connection to ‘the climate of thought in the late
nineteenth century’ see C. B. Cox, Joseph Conrad: The Modern Imagination
(London: Dent, 1974), p. 8. On Conrad’s scepticism concerning language
see Hugh Epstein, ‘Trusting in Words of Some Sort: Aspects of the Use of
Language in Nostromo’, The Conradian, 12.1 (May 1987), 17–31.
5 See, for example, Padmini Mongia, ‘Empire, Narrative and the Feminine in
Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness’, in Contexts for Conrad, eds Keith Carabine,
Owen Knowles and Wieslaw Krajka (East European Monographs; Boulder:
University of Colorado Press, 1993), pp. 135–50, rpt. in Under Postcolonial
Eyes: Joseph Conrad After Empire, eds Gail Fincham and Myrtle Hooper
(Rondebosch: University of Cape Town Press, 1996), pp. 120–32. See also
the chapters by Mongia and Roberts in CG and Joseph Conrad: Contemporary
Critical Essays, ed. Elaine Jordan (London: Macmillan, 1996), Introduction,
pp. 6–9.
6 For a survey of some of the critical views of Conrad’s relationship to
modernity, see Joseph Conrad (Longman Critical Reader), ed. Andrew
Michael Roberts (London and New York: Longman, 1998), pp. 20–4.
7 Bonnie Kime Scott (ed.), The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology
(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990); Juliet
Flower MacCannell, The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy (London:
Routledge, 1991), Chapter 1, ‘The Primal Scene of Modernity’ (pp. 9–30)
and Chapter 2, ‘Modernity as the Absence of the Other: the General Self’