Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781107093980 (Hardback)
- 823/.912 23
- PR6005.O4 Z6336 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
Introduction -- Commerce and the edge of colonialism: Almayer's folly -- Competing for the prizes of commerce and overlordship: An outcast of the islands -- Standing out against the 'irresistibility of progress': The rescue -- Negotiating the nets of commerce and duty: Lord Jim -- Imperialism, commerce, and the individual: appetites and responsibilities in 'Falk' -- Testing the west, testing the individual: The shadow-line -- The 'irreducible minimum': the plantation and comprehensive commercialization in 'The end of the tether' -- The rise of the commodity: mining, pan-European financing, and commercial imagination in Victory -- Conclusion.
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