Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional, more modern meanings in Joseph Conrad’s fiction o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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