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The Historian's Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History ... (The Historian's Annotated Classics) by Mark D. Larabee is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Historian's Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History ... (The Historian's Annotated Classics) about?
Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness" has become familiar shorthand for conjuring an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race, and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now. Featuring the texts of both Hear
Who reads The Historian's Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History ... (The Historian's Annotated Classics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark D. Larabee
- Publisher
- Praeger, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9798400663741
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History