Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 9780393264869
Publication Date: 2 September 2016

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed.
• "Textual History and Editing Principles" provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness.
• Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature.
• Fifteen illustrations.
• Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticism-ten of them new to the Fifth Edition, including an entirely new subsection on film adaptations of Heart of Darkness.
• A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography.

About the Author

Paul B. Armstrong is Professor of English and former Dean of the College at Brown University. He was previously a professor and a dean at the University of Oregon and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has also taught at the University of Copenhagen, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Virginia, and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the VisualArts.

He is the author of How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art; Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form; Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation; The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford; and The Phenomenology of Henry James. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of E. M.Forster's Howards End and of the fourth and fifth Norton Critical Editions of Heart of Darkness.