The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire - Couverture souple

GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd

 
9780804731591: The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804731594 ISBN 13 : 9780804731591
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This study shows how the contemporary commonplace idea of 'the West' emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic politics. The author argues that twentieth-century ideas of 'the West' can be traced to the convergence of two distinct discursive contexts: the 'new imperialism' of the 1890s that gave wider currency to oppositions between East and West, and the influence of nineteenth-century Russian debates on Western European ideas of Europe. The work of Conrad is shown to be uniquely suited to studying the relation between these two cultural and political contexts, since they provided Conrad with his two great themes - colonialism and revolution.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804731594
ISBN 13 
9780804731591
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
294
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0804724016 ISBN 13 :  9780804724012
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1995
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