Illustrations xix Acknowledgments xxi 1 Theories of Community: Williams, Heidegger, and Others 1 2 Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset as a Model of Victorian Community 18 3 Individual and Community in The Return of the Native 93 4 Conrad's Colonial (Non)Community: Nostromo 139 5 Waves Theory: An Anachronistic Reading 232 6 Postmodern Communities in Pynchon and Cervantes 264 Coda 308 Notes 309 Index 327