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  1. Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
    Author: Chan, Evelyn Tsz Yan
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Introduction -- “[T]he rightful due of a successful man”: Claiming Desert in Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands -- “A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct”: Instabilities of Self-Making in Lord Jim -- Nostromo’s Great... more

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    Introduction -- “[T]he rightful due of a successful man”: Claiming Desert in Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands -- “A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct”: Instabilities of Self-Making in Lord Jim -- Nostromo’s Great Expectations -- “[E]ntitled to Undisputed Success”: Professional Being vs. Doing in The Secret Agent -- The Moral Work of Affirming Inheritances in Under Western Eyes and Victory. This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional, more modern meanings in Joseph Conrad’s fiction on work and self-making. In effect, the emphasis on inheritance as referring to social rank and wealth acquired through birth shifted to a focus on talent, ability, and merit, often expressed through work. The book explores how Conrad’s fiction engaged with these changing modes of inheritance and work, and the resulting claims of desert they led to. Uniquely, it argues that Conrad’s fiction critiques claims of desert arising from both work and inheritance, while also vividly portraying the emotional costs and existential angst that these beliefs in desert entailed. The argument speaks to and illuminates today’s debates on moral desert arising from work and inheritance, in particular from meritocratic ideals. Its new approach to Conrad’s works will appeal to students and scholars of Conrad and literary modernism, as well as a wider audience interested in philosophical and social debates on desert deriving from inheritance and work.

     
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    Language: English
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series: Springer eBook Collection
    Subjects: Literature.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Industrial sociology.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 155 p. 1 illus.)
  2. Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
    Author: Chan, Evelyn Tsz Yan
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Introduction -- “[T]he rightful due of a successful man”: Claiming Desert in Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands -- “A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct”: Instabilities of Self-Making in Lord Jim -- Nostromo’s Great... more

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    Introduction -- “[T]he rightful due of a successful man”: Claiming Desert in Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands -- “A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct”: Instabilities of Self-Making in Lord Jim -- Nostromo’s Great Expectations -- “[E]ntitled to Undisputed Success”: Professional Being vs. Doing in The Secret Agent -- The Moral Work of Affirming Inheritances in Under Western Eyes and Victory. This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional, more modern meanings in Joseph Conrad’s fiction on work and self-making. In effect, the emphasis on inheritance as referring to social rank and wealth acquired through birth shifted to a focus on talent, ability, and merit, often expressed through work. The book explores how Conrad’s fiction engaged with these changing modes of inheritance and work, and the resulting claims of desert they led to. Uniquely, it argues that Conrad’s fiction critiques claims of desert arising from both work and inheritance, while also vividly portraying the emotional costs and existential angst that these beliefs in desert entailed. The argument speaks to and illuminates today’s debates on moral desert arising from work and inheritance, in particular from meritocratic ideals. Its new approach to Conrad’s works will appeal to students and scholars of Conrad and literary modernism, as well as a wider audience interested in philosophical and social debates on desert deriving from inheritance and work.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
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    ISBN: 9789811925849
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Subjects: Literature.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Industrial sociology.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 155 p. 1 illus.)