This collection of essays provides an analysis of three key Conrad texts: "Heart of Darkness", "Nostromo" and "The Secret Agent". It should help students to assess the different critical and theoretical approaches that have developed since the 1960s.

This new collection of essays on key Conrad texts - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent - will help students to assess the different critical and theoretical approaches which have emerged over the past thirty years. These approaches include post-colonial discourse, feminism, developments in Marxist critical theory as well as narrative theory and the influence of psychoanalysis.

Acknowledgements - General Editors' Preface - Introduction: Reading Conrad
E.Jordan - Ideological Perspectives: Kurtz and the Fate of Victorian Progress
I.Watt - The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing
N.Pelikan Straus - An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
P.Brooks - The Discoursing Heart: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
C.L.Miller - The Novel as Beginning Intention: Nostromo
E.W.Said - Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Nostromo
F.Jameson - Nostromo and the Failure of Myth
D.Erdinast-Vulcan - A Play of Signs: Nostromo
J.Reilly - Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent
T.Eagleton - The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent
A.Fogel - The Woman in Black: Unravelling Race and Gender in The Secret Agent
R.Stott - Further Reading - Notes on Contributors - Index