The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire / Christopher...
The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire / Christopher...
The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire / Christopher GoGwilt.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N823.912/C754/92
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English
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viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Rhetorical Invention of the West -- 2. The Charm of Empire: "Karain: A Memory" -- 3. Rescue Work: Conrad's Malay Archipelago -- 4. Lord Jim: Discriminating Names -- 5. Writing and Geography: A Personal Record and Heart of Darkness -- 6. Sclavonism, the Spoils of Literature: A Personal Record...
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
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California
Date Published
1995.
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By placing Joseph Conrad's fiction at the center of an examination of the term "the West," this study reconceives the major contours of Conrad's work to show how the contemporary commonplace idea of the West emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic polit...
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The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire / Christopher GoGwilt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index.
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N823.912/C754/92
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74VvR05A5MPy
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0804724016 (cloth acid-free paper)
9780804724012 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0804724016 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780804724012 (cloth acid-free paper)
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823.912
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991009223329702626
