TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francis,Andrew
TI  - Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction
SN  - 9781107093980 (Hardback)
AV  - PR6005.O4 Z6336 2015
U1  - 823/.912 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Conrad, Joseph,
KW  - Commerce in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Orient
KW  - In literature
KW  - Malaysia
N1  - 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
ER  -