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001448866 1001_ $$aChan, Evelyn Tsz Yan,$$d1982-$$eauthor.
001448866 24510 $$aWork, inheritance, and deserts in Joseph Conrad's fiction /$$cEvelyn Tsz Yan Chan.
001448866 264_1 $$aSingapore :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2022.
001448866 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 155 pages) :$$billustrations
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001448866 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001448866 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- "[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.
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001448866 520__ $$aThis book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, "inheritance" gradually took on additional, more modern meanings in Joseph Conrad's fiction on work and self-making. In effect, the emphasis on inheritance as referring to social rank and wealth acquired through birth shifted to a focus on talent, ability, and merit, often expressed through work. The book explores how Conrad's fiction engaged with these changing modes of inheritance and work, and the resulting claims of desert they led to. Uniquely, it argues that Conrad's fiction critiques claims of desert arising from both work and inheritance, while also vividly portraying the emotional costs and existential angst that these beliefs in desert entailed. The argument speaks to and illuminates today's debates on moral desert arising from work and inheritance, in particular from meritocratic ideals. Its new approach to Conrad's works will appeal to students and scholars of Conrad and literary modernism, as well as a wider audience interested in philosophical and social debates on desert deriving from inheritance and work.
001448866 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 23, 2022).
001448866 60010 $$aConrad, Joseph,$$d1857-1924$$xCriticism and interpretation.
001448866 650_0 $$aInheritance and succession in literature.
001448866 650_0 $$aWork in literature.
001448866 650_0 $$aDeserts in literature.
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