Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

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University of California Press, 1981 M06 29 - 375 pages
“Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s.”—New York Times
 

Contents

CHAPTER
1
The Past as Prologue
24
Almayers Folly
34
The Nigger of the Narcissus
68
Heart of Darkness
126
Kurtz and the Fate
147
Critical Perspectives
168
The Tale
214
Lord Jim
254
The Narrative Progress and Its Methods
269
The Roles of Time and Narrative
286
Jim and Marlow
310
Epilogue
357
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Ian Watt was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.

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