The tropical forest as symbol and setting in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and his British contemporaries

• Main Author: Felderhof, Benedick
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Holloway, University of London 2018
• Subjects: Conrad; empire; evolution; forest; hyle; jungle; Kipling; MATTER; nature; tropics

This thesis explains the prevalence and meaning of the tropical forest image in British fiction during the period 1885 to 1914, referring in particular to the writing of Conrad, but also that of Stevenson, Haggard, Hudson, Kipling, Doyle, and Wells. It attempts to combine the two strands of Conradia...