Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and IdentityThrough attention to incidents of betrayal and self betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualised self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the