2015



Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction

Andrew Francis 2015



E-Book: 248 English pages

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Price: 1000 Toman

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Andrew Francis’ Culture and Commerce in Conrad’s Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad’s work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad’s Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad’s treatment of commerce – Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European – is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.


About the Author

Andrew Francis received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2010. He has published in The Conradian and contributed to The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, and is currently working on a book on economics, politics and society in Conrad’s Asian fiction.