Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

by Peter Edgerly Firchow

Book by Firchow, Peter Edgerly

258 pages, Hardcover

First published November 4, 1999

About the author

Peter Edgerly Firchow (1937–2008) was an American literary scholar and educator. He wrote extensively on the relationship between British and German literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he was a leading scholar of the British writer Aldous Huxley. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota English Department from 1967 to 2008 and as director of the university's Comparative Literature program from 1972 to 1978.