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Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction

Title
Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction / Andrew Francis.
Author
Francis, Andrew, 1950-
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description
xvii, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
  • Commerce in literature
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Colonies in literature
  • Literature
  • Orient > In literature
  • Malaysia > In literature
  • Asia > Orient
  • Malaysia
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Commerce and the edge of colonialism: Almayer's folly -- 2. Competing for the prizes of commerce and overlordship: An outcast of the islands -- 3. Standing out against the 'irresistibility of progress': The rescue -- 4. Negotiating the nets of commerce and duty: Lord Jim -- 5. Imperialism, commerce, and the individual: appetites and responsibilities in 'Falk' -- 6. Testing the west, testing the individual: The shadow-line -- 7. The 'irreducible minimum': the plantation and comprehensive commercialization in 'The end of the tether' -- 8. The rise of the commodity: mining, pan-European financing, and commercial imagination in Victory -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFE 15-3784
ISBN
  • 9781107093980
  • 1107093988
  • 9781316145579 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1316145573 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014043736
OCLC
897001638
Author
Francis, Andrew, 1950- author.
Title
Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction / Andrew Francis.
Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
Other Form:
Print version: Francis, Andrew, 1950- Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction (DLC) 2014043736 (OCoLC)897001638
Research Call Number
JFE 15-3784
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