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Tables of Contents for A Preface to Conrad
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations and Maps
vii
Foreword to the First Edition
ix
Acknowledgements and Editorial Notes
xi
Abbreviations
xiii
PART ONE: THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Chronological table
2
5
Biographical Background
7
35
The double man
7
1
Poland
8
9
Marseille
17
3
England and the Merchant Navy
20
5
The Congo and its aftermath
25
3
The second career: Conrad the novelist
28
14
Cultural Background
42
69
The tensions
42
2
Conrad's pessimism
44
3
Religious matters
47
4
Poland and Conrad's political outlook
51
4
Imperialism
55
9
Science and determinism
64
1
The Superfluous Man
65
2
The Hamlet/Don Quixote Dichotomy
67
7
Anti-rational primitivism
74
5
Determinism and solipsism
79
3
Darkness and the dying sun
82
3
Darwinism
85
3
Darwinism and psychology
88
2
Atavism and doubles
90
3
Evolution, Aestheticism and sex
93
6
Literary influences
99
12
PART TWO: THE ART OF CONRAD
Conrad On His Art
111
3
The Pressure Towards Paradox
114
5
The Convert Plot: Three Examples
119
3
Abdulla's defeat of Almayer in Almayer's Folly
119
1
The conspiracy against Kurtz in `Heart of Darkness'
119
1
The attempt to defraud the hero in The Shadow-Line
120
2
Textual Commentaries
122
18
The opening of Almayer's Folly (1895)
122
2
The ending of `An Outpost of Progress' (1897)
124
2
A passage from `Heart of Darkness' (1899)
126
5
Jim's jump: Lord Jim (1900)
131
2
The ending of `The Secret Sharer' (1910)
133
2
Two Conradian cruces
135
5
Nostromo
140
36
Genesis and production
140
1
Sources
140
10
Nostromo and the meanings of its techniques
150
13
Critical challenges
163
6
Chronology and topography
169
7
Heroes, Heroines, Gender And Feminism
176
8
Models of conduct
176
2
A type-list
178
2
Feminist criticisms of Conrad
180
4
Conrad's Place In Literary History
184
27
PART THREE: REFERENCE SECTION
A list of symbolic or allegoric names in Conrad's fiction
193
5
Gazetteer
198
2
Short biographies
200
7
Further reading
207
4
INDEXES
211
1
General Index
211
6
Index to Conrad's Works
217