The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire

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The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire

Christopher GoGwilt

Stanford University Press, 1995

  • : cloth
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Bibliography: p. [263]-272

Includes index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780804724012

内容説明

This study shows how the contemporary commonplace idea of "the West" emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic politics. The author argues that twentieth-century ideas of 'the West' can be traced to the convergence of two distinct discursive contexts: the 'new imperialism' of the 1890s that gave wider currency to oppositions between East and West, and the influence of nineteenth-century Russian debates on Western European ideas of Europe. The work of Conrad is shown to be uniquely suited to studying the relation between these two cultural and political contexts, since they provided Conrad with his two great themes - colonialism and revolution.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Part I. Inventing the West: 1. The rhetorical invention of the West
  • 2. The charm of empire: 'Karain: a memory'
  • Part II. The Map of empire: 3. Rescue work: Conrad's Malay archipelago
  • 4. Lord Jim: discriminating names
  • Part III. The Map of Europe: 5. Writing and geography: A Personal Record and Heart of Darkness
  • 6. Sclavonism, the spoils of literature: A Personal Record and Under Western Eyes
  • Part IV. Plotting the West: 7. Subversive plots: from Under Western Eyes to The Secret Agent
  • 8. The Occidental Republic: Nostromo
  • Epilogue: a brief genealogy of the West
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
巻冊次

: [pbk.] ISBN 9780804731591

内容説明

This study shows how the contemporary commonplace idea of 'the West' emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic politics. The author argues that twentieth-century ideas of 'the West' can be traced to the convergence of two distinct discursive contexts: the 'new imperialism' of the 1890s that gave wider currency to oppositions between East and West, and the influence of nineteenth-century Russian debates on Western European ideas of Europe. The work of Conrad is shown to be uniquely suited to studying the relation between these two cultural and political contexts, since they provided Conrad with his two great themes - colonialism and revolution.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Part I. Inventing the West: 1. The rhetorical invention of the West
  • 2. The charm of empire: 'Karain: a memory'
  • Part II. The Map of empire: 3. Rescue work: Conrad's Malay archipelago
  • 4. Lord Jim: discriminating names
  • Part III. The Map of Europe: 5. Writing and geography: A Personal Record and Heart of Darkness
  • 6. Sclavonism, the spoils of literature: A Personal Record and Under Western Eyes
  • Part IV. Plotting the West: 7. Subversive plots: from Under Western Eyes to The Secret Agent
  • 8. The Occidental Republic: Nostromo
  • Epilogue: a brief genealogy of the West
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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