scholarly journals Luminaries in Shadows: Women in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-168
Author(s):  
Dr. Shreeja Tripathi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Absent Presence

Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness is a popular modernist work which has often been implored for racist undercurrents. The characterisation of women in the novella remains frail and severely restricted. However, the seemingly mute and insignificant figures of the narrative are an ‘absent presence’ which shapes and directs Marlow’s spiritual quest into the “heart of darkness”. The novella is a text which captures the feminist ethos rising in the contemporary British society as an invisibly powerful undercurrent.

British Society of Gastroenterology

1965 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
Iain Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
British Society

Therapist Narcissism: The Heart of Darkness.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Heart Of Darkness

Badges of the dental profession. The British Society of Periodontology

BDJ ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 161 (11) ◽  
pp. 427-427
Author(s):  
S A Hancocks
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
Dental Profession

Drawing as a Creative Approach to Researching Extant Garments: A Case Study Involving John Ruskin's Clothing

Costume ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-221
Author(s):  
Ingrid Mida ◽  
Sarah Casey
Keyword(s):  
Research Tool ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
Dress History ◽  
Absent Presence

Reading the clues embedded in extant clothing demands both imagination and patience since the subtle marks of wear, use and alteration may only become evident with extended observation and reflection. During the course of a project undertaken in conjunction with the bicentenary celebrations of John Ruskin's birth culminating in the exhibition of Sarah Casey's drawings in Ruskin's Good Looking! (8 February–7 April 2019), the authors studied the garments of John Ruskin at Brantwood, his former home in the Lake District. The life-sized drawings of these garments produced by Casey mapped the absent presence of the former wearer, allowed visitors the opportunity to better see and reflect on Ruskin's clothing, and also revealed the hidden histories of Ruskin's garments. Drawing, the making of marks with meaning, is not an obvious research tool in dress history and curatorial practice but, as this case study shows, can expose subtle details and reveal new insights.

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