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| Zusammenfassung: | <jats:p xml:lang="en">This essay discusses Joseph Conrad's use of the rhetoric of energy and entropy in his critique of imperial dependency and inefficiency. It contextualizes works such as The Secret Agent , Heart of Darkness , and The Mirror of the Sea not simply in terms of their engagement with Victorian thermodynamic discourse, but by reference to the specific ways in which concerns about energy use and dissipation were linked to representations of the imperial project in the late nineteenth century.</jats:p> |
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| Umfang: | 75-98 |
| ISSN: |
1080-6547
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| DOI: | 10.1353/elh.0.0030 |