Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2022
Abstract
Focusing on Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, this essay historicizes the treatment of what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder, demonstrating how Conrad anticipated our current understanding and treatment of the illness. The second part of the essay addresses Nostromo’s treatment of historiography. Part three is concerned with epistemology and the relationship between neurological discoveries concerning the gap between perception and consciousness, relating those discoveries to Conrad’s use of delayed decoding.
Recommended Citation
Ruppel, Richard J. "History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 68 no. 4, 2022, p. 749-770. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0050
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
Johns Hopkins University Press
Included in
Cognition and Perception Commons, Epistemology Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, Other Mental and Social Health Commons, Other Philosophy Commons, Psychiatric and Mental Health Commons
Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in MFS Modern Fiction Studies, volume 68, number 4, in 2022 following peer review. This article may not exactly replicate the final published version. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0050.