Conrad and Masculinity

degeneracy, 68, 90, 92
Derrida, Jacques, 19, 137, 228n
desire, 8–10, 17, 18, 20, 22–6, 29–34,
36, 37, 39, 41, 44, 46, 51, 52, 61–5,
68, 70, 79, 80–1, 90, 108, 110, 112,
120, 121, 126, 131, 133–6, 138 ,
143–5, 147, 150, 152, 158, 159,
163, 165, 166–7, 169–73, 176,
181–5, 187–8, 191–3, 195–7, 200,
201, 203, 205, 207–208
economic model of, 64–5, 196–7
hydraulic model of, 21, 29, 70
Dickens, Charles,
Bleak House, 222n
Our Mutual Friend, 222n
difference, 18–21, 35, 51, 53–4, 62,
69, 171, 175, 188, 197, 200, 203,
208, 210
see also cultural difference; race
discipline, 94–117
see also Foucault
Doane, Mary Ann, 36, 70, 195
Doisneau, Robert, 195
Dollimore, Jonathan, 19, 74
domestic novel, 45
doubles, 132, 135–6, 145
Dutch East Indies, 20, 23
Dyer, Richard, 52, 213n
Eagleton, Terry, 29, 212n
écriture féminine, 67, 110, 115
Eliot, T.S., 48, 71, 119
Ellis, Henry Havelock, 3
empire, see imperialism
Empire of the Selfsame, 17, 40
see also law of the selfsame
empty signifiers, 126–7
Engels, Friedrich, 101
Englishness, 94, 96, 97–8, 100, 147, 148
epistemology, 45, 90, 118–36, 137,
147, 168, 206
Epstein, Hugh, 224n, 232n,
Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna, 118, 161,
179, 228n
essence / essentialism, 22, 65, 69,
100, 154, 155, 171, 200, 207
Europe, European, 19, 36, 41, 53, 58,
68, 88, 96, 120, 126, 131, 134, 168,
183, 198, 199, 203
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exchange, 8, 10, 44, 53, 54, 64, 65,
74, 82, 87, 99, 121, 131, 139, 145,
146, 147, 154, 163–85, 187, 199,
201, 206
exotic(ism), 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 36,
40, 44, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 65, 77,
82, 108, 146
false consciousness, 94
fantasy, 5, 17, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 36,
42, 44, 55, 64, 71, 80, 89, 91, 100,
107, 108, 130, 135, 137, 139, 146,
156, 167, 170, 171–2, 176, 181,
183, 187, 188, 192, 200
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 172
Faulkner, William
Mosquitoes, 177
feminine, the, 19, 46, 56, 71, 73, 88,
89, 92, 93, 97, 101, 102, 103, 106,
109, 110, 111, 117, 119, 121, 137,
138, 146, 151, 152, 156, 157, 159,
161, 169, 173, 176, 187, 200, 206
see also women / ‘woman’
feminism, 1–2, 6, 8, 16, 21, 40–3, 67,
69, 73, 81, 102, 110–12, 115, 119,
120, 152, 156, 168, 169, 173, 174,
183, 207–8, 209
feminist film theory, 33, 170–3, 185,
191
fetish(ization), 35–6, 53, 78, 170–2,
179, 185, 187, 189, 192
film theory / technique, 36–7, 55–6,
114, 170–3, 175–6, 188–9, 190,
196, 209
dissolve, 55
suture, 36–7
synchronization, 114
voice-over, 114–15
fin de siècle, 44, 71
First World, 26
First World War, 2, 29–30, 119
flâneur / flâneuse, 119–20, 199
Flaubert, Gustave, 223n
Madame Bovary, 61, 62
Fletcher, John, 71
Ford, Ford Madox, 218n
collaboration with Conrad, 46, 48,
167, 197
friendship with Conrad, 47