Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

39. Conrad and Masculinity

3:30–4:45 p.m., McCormick, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Joseph Conrad Society of America

Presiding: John G. Peters, Univ. of North Texas

1. “From Exceptional Individuality to Unruly Brotherhood: Geographies of Masculinity in Nostromo,” James P. Crane, Loyola Univ., Chicago

2. “Man, Impulse, Violence, and the Jungle Effect: Masculine De-Evolution in Conrad’s ‘An Outpost of Progress,’” Russell Brickey, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

3. “Man Enough to Face the Darkness: Fetishism and the Face in Heart of Darkness,” Jesse Taylor, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

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