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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808892703321

Autore

Ruppel Richard J (Richard Jeffrey), <1954->

Titolo

A political genealogy of Joseph Conrad / / Richard Ruppel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0500-7

0-7391-7825-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Political fiction, English - History and criticism

Politics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Almayer's Folly (1895), and An Outcast of the Islands (1896); 2 Lord Jim (1900); 3 Heart of Darkness (1899-1900); 4 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904); 5 "An Anarchist" (1906), "The Informer" (1906), and The Secret Agent (1907); 6 A Personal Record (1912) and Under Western Eyes (1911); 7 Chance (1912); Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>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. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad</span><span> is the first full-length analysis of Conrad's politics since the 1960s.</span></span>