Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction /
- xvii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 --Criticism and interpretation.
Commerce in literature. Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature.