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Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad's Fiction



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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.
Pages
155 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2022-08-19
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9789811925832
EAN PDF
9789811925849
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Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
15
Taille du fichier
2191 Ko
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94,94 €
EAN EPUB
9789811925849
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
15
Taille du fichier
430 Ko
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Prix
94,94 €

Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her publications include Virginia Woolf and the Professions (2014), The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts (2016, Springer; as a contributor and co-editor), and The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong (2020, Springer; as primary author). She has also published numerous articles on Joseph Conrad. Her primary research and teaching interests are in literary representations of work and education, and in philosophical issues arising from such representations.

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