Conradian contracts exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination / Tamás Juhász.

Contents Commerce and return in Almayer's folly -- "Trans-ports of love": exchange as practice and narrative -- Never keeping to oneself: a total social fact in "Typhoon" and "The secret sharer" -- Paternal discourse and contractual revision in Under western eyes -- "The duel": rules and reciprocities, or blows for sheer love -- A "supreme illusion": acts of recognition in The secret agent -- Trade, meaning and the prospects of self-transformation in Lord Jim -- The end of potlatching: gift and prestige in Nostromo -- Sympathy, generosity and the business of womanhood in Chance -- Conclusions and words after Conrad's.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011001451
ISBN9780739145531 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0739145533 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780739145555 (ebk.)
ISBN073914555X (ebk.)

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