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Book SynopsisIn the century since its publication in 1904, Nostromo has taken its place among Conrad’s masterpieces as a panoramic novel of revolution and a profound meditation on history and the effects of “material interests” on human destiny. The eight new essays brought together in this volume examine the novel from various perspectives: as an epic, as a study in colonialism and the problem of “homecoming,” as an exploration of free will and determinism, as a textual artefact, and as a reflection upon earlier works of European literature by Coleridge, Pushkin, and others.
Table of ContentsForeword Contributors Terry COLLITS: Anti-Heroics and Epic Failures: The Case of Nostromo C. BROOK MILLER: Holroyd’s Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo Ludmilla VOITKOVSKA: Homecoming in Nostromo Amar ACHERAÏOU: “Action is consolatory”: The Dialectics of Action and Thought in Nostromo Ludwig SCHNAUDER: Free Will and Determinism in Nostromo Xavier BRICE: Ford Madox Ford and the Composition of Nostromo Mario CURRELI: Leitmotifs from Coleridge and Wagner in Nostromo and Beyond Christopher CAIRNEY: Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and “The Horse of Stone” in Nostromo
