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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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Details
- Description
- xvii, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- 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