“Looking at Another Man's Work”
“Looking at Another Man's Work”
Theaters of Masculinity in Conrad's Lord Jim
This chapter discusses Conrad's Lord Jim, which is read as a competitive theater of manhood in which Jim and Marlow keep staging their masculinity to each other. In this novel, masculinity arises out of a relationship between a male character's pose and the cultural codes he and his evaluating audience negotiate together.
Keywords: Conrad, Lord Jim, competitive theater, manhood, masculinity, relationship, cultural codes
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