LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND EDITORIAL NOTES ABBREVIATIONS PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING Chronological table 1 BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND The double man Poland Marseille England and the Merchant Navy The Congo and its aftermath The second career:Conrad the novelist 2 CULTURAL BACKGROUND The tensions Conrad's pessimism Religious matters Poland and Conrad's political outlook Imperialism Science and determinism The Superfluous Man The Hamlet/Don Quixote dichotomy Anti-rational primitivism Determinism and solipsism Darkness and the dying sun Darwinism Darwinism and psychology Atavism and doubles Evolution,Aestheticism and sex Literary influences PART TWO:THE ART OF CONRAD 3 CONRAD ON HIS ART 4 THE PRESSURE TOWARDS PARADOX 5 THE COVERT PLOT:THREE EXAMPLES 6 TEXTUAL COMMENTARIES 7 NOSTROMO 8 HEROES,HEROINES,GENDER AND FEMINISM 9 CONRAD'S PLACE IN LITERARY HISTORY PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTION
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