In this comprehensive analysis, Richard Ruppel, a former president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, reveals the radical contingency of the politics in Conrad's major fiction. A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad is the first full-length analysis of Conrad's politics since the 1960s.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conrad's Radically Contingent Politics
Chapter 1: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'(1897), Almayer's Folly (1895), & An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
Chapter 2: Lord Jim (1900)
Chapter 3: Heart of Darkness (1899-1900)
Chapter 4: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904)
Chapter 5: "An Anarchist" (1906), "The Informer" (1906), & The Secret Agent (1907)
Chapter 6: A Personal Record (1912) & Under Western Eyes (1911)
Chapter 7: Chance (1912)
Bibliography
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