Conradian contracts exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination / Tamás Juhász.
| Author/creator | Juhász, Tamás, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, |
| Description | xvii, 219 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011001451 |
| ISBN | 9780739145531 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739145533 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739145555 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 073914555X (ebk.) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |