Lord Jim | Literary Precedents
Conrad's novel offers a critique of Romantic attitudes toward heroism. Hence Conrad's novel follows a tradition of major nineteenth-century fiction which pits a romantic sensibility against a hostile and pragmatic world. Although this tradition may be traced as far back as Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811), Conrad's major precedents would appear to be such works as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (1865-1869), with its criticism of romantic heroism and romantic attitudes toward war, and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), which depicts with exhaustive...
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