Testimony on Trial Conrad, James, and the Contest for Modernism

Name: Testimony on Trial Conrad, James, and the Contest for Modernism
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ISBN: 9781442643680

ISBN-10: 1442643684

ISBN-13: 9781442643680

Edition: 2012

Authors: Brian Artese

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Who is a more authoritative source of information — the person who experiences it firsthand, or a more ‘impartial’ authority? In the late nineteenth century, testimony became a common feature of literary works both fact and fiction. But with the rise of new journalism, the power of testimony could be undermined by anonymous, institutional voices — a Victorian subversion which continues to this day.Testimony on Trialexamines the conflicts over testimony through the eyes of two of its major combatants, Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Brian Artese finds an overlooked yet direct inspiration for Heart of Darknessin the anti-testimonial scheming of Henry Morton Stanley and the New York Herald.…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.35" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Brian Arteseis a lecturer in the Department of English at Georgia State University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



'Speech Was of No Use': Conrad and the Critical Abjection of Testimony



Theatre of Incursion and Unveiling I: Home



Overhearing Testimony: James in the Shadow of Sentimentalism



Abominable Confidence' from The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' to Lord Jim: Toward a New Sympathetic Novel



"Theatre of Incursion and Unveiling II: Empire


Notes


Bibliography


Index