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Marlow(e)'s Africa: postcolonial queenship in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage.(Christopher Marlowe, Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060622
Author:Ray, Sid

In a postscript to a letter dated 7 January 1902, Joseph Conrad mentioned to David Meldrum of Blackwood's Magazine that he had written a "paper comparing the spirit of Elisabethan times with ours as expressed in the respective literatures" (CL 2.369). (1) The paper has never been located, but the letter describing it suggests that Conrad considered Elizabethan literature significant to contemporary concerns. One commonality is that both eras were marked by the reigns of powerful and popular queens. Despite the comparison, surprisingly little work has been done to uncover early ...

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