Book contents
- Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction
- Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Orthography and Translation
- Book part
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Commerce and the Edge of Colonialism:Almayer’s Folly
- Chapter 2 Competing for the Prizes of Commerce and Overlordship:An Outcast of the Islands
- Chapter 3 Standing Out against the Irresistibility of Progress:The Rescue
- Chapter 4 Negotiating the Nets of Commerce and Duty:Lord Jim
- Chapter 5 Imperialism, Commerce, and the Individual: Appetites and Responsibilities in ‘Falk’
- Chapter 6 Testing the West, Testing the Individual:The Shadow-Line
- Chapter 7 The ‘Irreducible Minimum’: The Plantation and Comprehensive Commercialization in ‘The End of the Tether’
- Chapter 8 The Rise of the Commodity: Mining, Pan-European Financing, and Commercial Imagination inVictory
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction
- Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Orthography and Translation
- Book part
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Commerce and the Edge of Colonialism:Almayer’s Folly
- Chapter 2 Competing for the Prizes of Commerce and Overlordship:An Outcast of the Islands
- Chapter 3 Standing Out against the Irresistibility of Progress:The Rescue
- Chapter 4 Negotiating the Nets of Commerce and Duty:Lord Jim
- Chapter 5 Imperialism, Commerce, and the Individual: Appetites and Responsibilities in ‘Falk’
- Chapter 6 Testing the West, Testing the Individual:The Shadow-Line
- Chapter 7 The ‘Irreducible Minimum’: The Plantation and Comprehensive Commercialization in ‘The End of the Tether’
- Chapter 8 The Rise of the Commodity: Mining, Pan-European Financing, and Commercial Imagination inVictory
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015