Joseph Conrad and the Ghost of Oscar Wilde

Authors

Richard Ruppel, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 1998

Abstract

"Conrad walks a similar tight- rope in his exploration of the homosocial continuum--pushing out the boundaries a little and then pulling back to accommodate a conventional audience that would have been hostile to a more overt exploration. In other words, Conrad could only press his artistic investigations of the potential relationships between men so far because those investigations were threatened by the ghost of Oscar Wilde."

Comments

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in The Conradian, volume 23, issue 1, in 1998 following peer review. This article may not exactly replicate the final published version.

Recommended Citation

Ruppel, Richard. “Joseph Conrad and the Ghost of Oscar Wilde.” The Conradian (U.K.). 23.1 (Spring, 1998): 19-36.

Peer Reviewed

1

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