Andrew Francis

Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Francis's Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length study of commerce in Conrad's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781107093980
• ISBN-10: 1107093988
• Artikelnr.: 42138162

Autorenporträt

Andrew Francis is a writer, community theologian, and former executive vice-chair of the UK Mennonite Trust. His doctorate (Princeton Theological Seminary) examined how religious communities use food and eat together. He is a published poet, and author of Hospitality and Community After Christendom (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Commerce and the edge of colonialism: Almayer's Folly; 2. Competing for
the prizes of commerce and overlordship: An Outcast of the Islands; 3.
Standing out against the irresistibility of progress: The Rescue; 4.
Negotiating the nets of commerce and duty: Lord Jim; 5. Imperialism,
commerce, and the individual: appetites and responsibilities in 'Falk'; 6.
Testing the West, testing the individual: The Shadow-Line; 7. The
'irreducible minimum': the plantation and comprehensive commercialization
in 'The End of the Tether'; 8. The rise of the commodity: mining,
pan-European financing, and commercial imagination in Victory.