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Joseph Conrad and Material Culture – From the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent to the Scramble for Africa de Merry M Pawlowski

Joseph Conrad and Material Culture – From the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent to the Scramble for Africa

Autor Merry M Pawlowski
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 aug 2023
Joseph Conrad and Material Culture offers a fresh approach to Conrad's work, especially his African fictions, by grounding its discussion in the importance of material culture and its role in shaping the literary art form in modernity.
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ISBN-13: 9788322796382
ISBN-10: 8322796382
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 144 x 224 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Maria Curie–Sklodowska University Press

Notă biografică

Merry M. Pawlowski is professor emerita of English at the California State University Bakersfield. She has published essays on Conrad¿s works in earlier volumes of Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, essays and book chapters on Virginia Woolf¿s Three Guineas, and an edited volume entitled Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators¿ Seduction.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION: The Commodity Transcendent
CHAPTER ONE: ¿Autocracy and War,¿ the Age of Capital, and the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent
CHAPTER TWO: Spectral Sightings, Mapping, and Exploration in ¿Geography and Some Explorers
CHAPTER THREE: A Witness in the Congo: Conrad¿s ¿The Congo Diary¿ and ¿Up-river Book¿
CHAPTER FOUR: ¿An Outpost of Progress¿: `The lightest part of the loot I carried off from Central Africä¿
CHAPTER FIVE: ¿Heart of Darkness¿: Conrad¿s Centerpiece in the Congo¿
CONCLUSION: Conrad, Commodities, and the Work of Art