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Conrad and Empire

Conrad and Empire M arch 2005 71 Conrad and Empire. By S tephen Ross. Colum bia a n d L ondon: University o f Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. 208. hc. $95.00. 0-8262- 1518-1. Ross’s o p en in g pages are promising. Relatively jargon-free while reassuringly up-to-date in th e ir citations o f contem porary theoreticians, these first dozen pages suggest a welcom e focus (from the all-too-frequent post-structuralist anti-capitalist basis, to be sure) o n the relation o f C o n ra d ’s vision to large-scale truly con­ tem porary socioeconom ic issues. Given the n u m b e r o f critics who are still repetitiously rep o rtin g (when n o t exaggerating) th e sex­ ism an d ethnocentrism o f authors w riting in w hat we all know to have b e e n m o re sexist a n d eth n o cen tric ages than ours, a read e r is likely to be happy to look forw ard to a discussion o f such a writer as C onrad having anticipated the results o f a global econom y in which m ajor portions o f governm http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

Conrad and Empire

Harris, Wendell V.
English Language Notes , Volume 42 (3) – Mar 1, 2005
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0013-8282
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M arch 2005 71 Conrad and Empire. By S tephen Ross. Colum bia a n d L ondon: University o f Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. 208. hc. $95.00. 0-8262- 1518-1. Ross’s o p en in g pages are promising. Relatively jargon-free while reassuringly up-to-date in th e ir citations o f contem porary theoreticians, these first dozen pages suggest a welcom e focus (from the all-too-frequent post-structuralist anti-capitalist basis, to be sure) o n the relation o f C o n ra d ’s vision to large-scale truly con­ tem porary socioeconom ic issues. Given the n u m b e r o f critics who are still repetitiously rep o rtin g (when n o t exaggerating) th e sex­ ism an d ethnocentrism o f authors w riting in w hat we all know to have b e e n m o re sexist a n d eth n o cen tric ages than ours, a read e r is likely to be happy to look forw ard to a discussion o f such a writer as C onrad having anticipated the results o f a global econom y in which m ajor portions o f governm

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