Conrad's Heart of Darkness
1899
Joseph Conrad, a Polish sailor turned English novelist, serialized a short novel in Blackwood's Magazine about an ivory-trading expedition up the Congo. It was, among other things, the first honest indictment of European imperialism written in English. A century later it would still be read - and argued about - as both masterpiece and symptom.
In context
Also in 1899 (8 other events on record)
- Second Boer War · Africa · War
- Philippine-American War · Southeast Asia · War
- Boxer Rebellion Begins · East Asia · War
- Aspirin Marketed · Europe · Science
- First Hague Convention · Europe · Politics
- Open Door Notes · East Asia · Politics
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Culture
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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