Modernism and Authority: Strategies of Legitimation in Flaubert and Conrad
Hardcover, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Very Good with no dust jacket.
Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards has light shelf wear. Gilt lettering very bright. Contents: Introduction: readership into audience. Heirs and usurpers: legitimation as rhetoric. The bougeois state: remembrance of legitimacy past. The case of the novel: the fatherless genre. The muse and the marketplace in early Flaubert. L'Education sentimentale: the political economy of the sign. Phantom publics and imaginary libraries: Flaubert, Conrad, and the institution of literature. The kernel and the enveloping haze. Paragon and enigma: the hero in Lord Jim. Lost in Azuera: the ate of Sulaco and Conrad's Nostromo. The structure of suspicion in The Secret Agent: the panoptical city. Conclusion, notes, bibliography, index. ; 9.25" tall; 207 pages.
ISBN: 080182480X Item #4600009
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