TY  - BOOK
AU  - Artese,Brian
TI  - Testimony on trial: Conrad, James, and the contest of modernism 
SN  - 9781442696679
AV  - PR6005 .T478 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Conrad, Joseph,
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1 "Speech Was of No Use": Conrad and the Critical Abjection of Testimony --; 2 Theatre of Incursion and Unveiling I: Home --; 3 Overhearing Testimony: James in the Shadow of Sentimentalism --; 4 'Abominable Confidence' from The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' to Lord Jim : Toward a New Sympathetic Novel --; 5 'Theatre of Incursion and Unveiling II: Empire; 2; b
N2  - "Who is a more authoritative source of information --; Testimony on Trial examines 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 Darkness in the anti-testimonial scheming of Henry Morton Stanley and the New York Herald. Through new readings of works including Lord Jim and The Portrait of a Lady, Artese demonstrates how the cultural conditions that worked against testimony fed into a nascent conflict about the meaning of modernism itself."--Pub. desc
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