Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for Joseph Conrad’s “Falk”

The sources of Conrad's novels and short stories have always excited the interest of critics and scholars. That of "Falk: A Reminiscence" has, however, never been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that a possible source of "Falk" can be f...

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Main Author: Salmons, Kim
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Published: Rodopi 2011
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Online Access:https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/3643/
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20873715
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spelling ftstmarysunicoll:oai:research.stmarys.ac.uk:3643 2023-05-15T14:23:35+02:00 Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for Joseph Conrad’s “Falk” Salmons, Kim 2011-04-01 https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/3643/ http://www.jstor.org/stable/20873715 unknown Rodopi orcid:0000-0002-7299-6316 Salmons, Kim (2011) Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for Joseph Conrad’s “Falk”. The Conradian, 36 (1). pp. 58-69. ISSN 0951-2314 801 Literature philosophy & theory 807 Literature education research & related topics 823 English fiction Journal Article PeerReviewed 2011 ftstmarysunicoll 2022-01-09T06:51:12Z The sources of Conrad's novels and short stories have always excited the interest of critics and scholars. That of "Falk: A Reminiscence" has, however, never been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that a possible source of "Falk" can be found in newspaper reports of the 1881 Greely Arctic Expedition that Conrad may have known about and followed in the press. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic St. Mary's University College Twickenham, London: Open Research Archive Arctic
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Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for Joseph Conrad’s “Falk”
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description The sources of Conrad's novels and short stories have always excited the interest of critics and scholars. That of "Falk: A Reminiscence" has, however, never been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that a possible source of "Falk" can be found in newspaper reports of the 1881 Greely Arctic Expedition that Conrad may have known about and followed in the press.
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