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The method is unsound: the aesthetic dissonance of colonial justification in Kipling, Conrad, and Greene. (authors Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene)

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Date: 19960922
Author:Scannell, James

In his 1970 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures published as Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling contends of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:

Today it is scarcely possible to read Marlow's celebration of England without irony; to many, especially among the English themselves, it is bound to seem patently absurd. The present state of opinion does not countenance the making of discriminations among imperialisms, present or past, and the idea that more virtue might be claimed for one nation than another is given scant credence. But this was not always the case. Having the choice ...

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