TY - JOUR
TI - Twinning Rider Haggard’s Ayesha and Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz
AU - Warodell, Johan
TI - Twinning Rider Haggard’s Ayesha and Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz
AB - Circumstantial evidence counts as hard fact in the attempt to understand what infl uenced Joseph Conrad’s works. Twenty-seven years ago Allan Hunter boldly argued that Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was, owing to many similar passages and phrases, strongly infl uenced by Rider Haggard’s She. To date, Hunter’s argument has been left unevaluated. This essay highlights similarities between the two antiheroes Kurtz and Ayesha in order to add circumstantial evidence to Hunter’s stated, but relatively unexplored view. This essay does not attempt to prove a direct infl uence, but hopes to show that engaging with this specifi c question of infl uence is worthwhile.
VL - 2011
IS - Vol. VI
PY - 2012
SN - 1899-3028
C1 - 2084-3941
SP - 57
EP - 68
DO - 10.4467/20843941YC.11.006.0030
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/yearbook-of-conrad-studies/artykul/twinning-rider-haggards-ayesha-and-joseph-conrads-kurtz
KW - solitude
KW - madness
KW - Congo
KW - imperialism
KW - Christianity
KW - ivory