...the privileged position accorded to the British Empire; the map at the Trading Company's office shows 'a vast amount of red - good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there' (55). Marlow, then, is not anticolonialist as far as his own country is concerned, although nothing...

...reflections in Brussels on the 'vast amount of red' on the map, the overseas possessions of Britain: 'good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there' (p. 25). TowsonTowser was a 'Master in his Majesty's Navy' (p. 65). Marlow is also a British master...

...attention is caught by 'a large shining map, marked with all the colours of a rainbow', which he describes: There was a vast amount of red - good to see at any time, because one knows some real work is being done in there, a duce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and,...

...Marlow, exempts British imperialism from censure. He remarks on the map in the company head office: "There was a vast amount of red - good to see at any...because one knows that some real work is done in there, [blue, green, orange, yellow] and, on the East coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers...

...territories amongst themselves. As Marlow, in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, described the resulting map, "There was a vast amount of red, good to see at any...time, because one knows that some real work is done there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple...

...chairs all around the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colours of a rainbow. There was a vast amount of red — good to see at...time, because one knows that some real work is done there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple...

...multi-coloured one, as Joseph Conrad's Marlow described it in 1898, 'There was a vast amount of red ... a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of...Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers drink the jolly lager beer.' Berlin: was it a conference or a scramble? Barbara Harlow Literary Works...

...that he is one of those British men who make the "vast amount of red" on the colonial map of Africa "good to see at any time because one knows that some real work is done in there" (13).s In this construction of African and European identities, Africa becomes the embodiment of that...

...company, the protagonist of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' (1899), Marlow, comments approvingly: 'There was a vast amount of red — good to see at...because one knows that some real work is done in there' (p. 14). Stripped of its British redness, however, Africa is nothing but darkness for Marlow. As Chapter...

...contemplating Africa on such a map in the office of the headquarters of the Company in Brussels: "... a vast amount of red — good to see at any time,...pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer." The imperialist viewing subject possesses the whole of the world in his gaze, a world submitted to...