Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad's Fiction

Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad's Fiction

Chan, Evelyn Tsz Yan

Springer Verlag, Singapore

08/2022

155

Dura

Inglês

9789811925832

15 a 20 dias

355

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Introduction.- "[T]he rightful due of a successful man": Claiming Desert in Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands.- "A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct": Instabilities of Self-Making in Lord Jim.- Nostromo's Great Expectations.- "[E]ntitled to Undisputed Success": Professional Being vs. Doing in The Secret Agent.- The Moral Work of Affirming Inheritances in Under Western Eyes and Victory.
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Joseph Conrad;inheritance;work and labour;desert;meritocracy;moral philosophy