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" Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction / "
Andrew Francis
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BL
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640169
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| Main Entry
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Francis, Andrew,1950-
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Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction /\ Andrew Francis
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xvii, 228 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9781107093980
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: 1107093988
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9781316145579
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1316145573
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Commerce in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Colonies in literature
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Orient, In literature
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Malaysia, In literature
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PR6005.O4Z6336 2015
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