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PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTINGChronological table 2

1 BIOGRAPHIGAL BACKGROUND 7

The double man 7

Poland 8

Marseille 17

England and the Merchant Navy 20

The Congo and its aftermath 25

The second career:Conrad the novelist 28

2 CULTURAL BACKGROUND 42

The tensions 42

Conrad's pessimism 44

Religious matters 47

Poland and Conrad's political outlook 51

Imperialism 55

Science and determinism 64

The Superfluous Man 65

The Hamlet/Don Quixote dichotomy 67

Anti-rational primitivism 74

Determinism and solipsism 79

Darkness and the dying sun 82

Darwinism 85

Darwinism and psychology 88

Atavism and doubles 90

Evolution,Aestheticism and sex 93

Literary influences 99

PART TWO:THE ART OF CONRAD 111

3 CONRAD ON HIS ART 111

4 THE PRESSURE TOWARDS PARADOX 114

5 THE COVERT PLOT:THREE EXAMPLES 119

1．Abdulla's defeat of Almayer in Almayer's Folly 119

2．The conspiracy against Kurtz in'Heart of Darkness' 119

3．The attempt to defraud the hero in The Shadow-Line 120

6 TEXTUAL COMMENTARIES 122

The opening of Almayer's Folly(1895) 122

The ending of'An Outpost of Progress'(1897) 124

A passage from'Heart of Darkness'(1899) 126

Jim's jump:Lord Jim(1900) 131

The ending of'The Secret Sharer'(1910) 133

Two Conradian cruces 135

7 NOSTROMO 140

Genesis and production 140

Sources 140

Nostromo and the meanings of its techniques 150

Critical challenges 163

Chronology and topography 169

8 HEROES,HEROINES,GENDER AND FEMINISM 176

Models of conduct 176

A type-list 178

Feminist criticisms of Conrad 180

9 CONRAD's PLACE IN LITERARY HISTORY 184

PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTION 193

A list of symbolic or allegoric names in Conrad's fiction 193

Gazetteer 198

Short biographies 200

Further reading 207

INDEXES 211

General Index 211

Index to Conrad's Works 217