Francis, Andrew,  1950- <br/><br/>
Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction / 

 - xvii, 228 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107093980 (Hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014043736 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Commerce in literature.<br/>Imperialism in literature.<br/>Colonies in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Orient--In literature.<br/>Malaysia--In literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6005.O4  / Z6336 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.912