Format:
Book
Author:
Hampson, Robert.
Title:
Conrad's secrets / Robert Hampson.
Publisher, Date:
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:
x, 299 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
This text explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, it provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.
Subjects:
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-290) and index.
Contents:
Covert plots and secret trades : Almayer's folly, An outcast of the islands, The rescue -- Trade secrets : Heart of darkness, The inheritors -- Political secrets : The secret agent -- City secrets : Chance -- Sexual secrets : Victory -- Medical secrets : Lord Jim, The arrow of gold, The rover -- Naval secrets : The tale -- Covert confessions : Under Western eyes.
LCCN:
2012464881 * 2013376108
ISBN:
9780230507838
0230507832
Other Number:
785873624
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
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1
Control Number:
1087076
Call Number:
828.91 C754z362
Course Reserves:
0
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