康拉德导读：英文版

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND EDITORIAL NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS
PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Chronological table
1 BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND
The double man
Poland
Marseille
England and the Merchant Navy
The Congo and its aftermath
The second career:Conrad the novelist
2 CULTURAL BACKGROUND
The tensions
Conrad's pessimism
Religious matters
Poland and Conrad's political outlook
Imperialism
Science and determinism
The Superfluous Man
The Hamlet/Don Quixote dichotomy
Anti-rational primitivism
Determinism and solipsism
Darkness and the dying sun
Darwinism
Darwinism and psychology
Atavism and doubles
Evolution,Aestheticism and sex
Literary influences
PART TWO:THE ART OF CONRAD
3 CONRAD ON HIS ART
4 THE PRESSURE TOWARDS PARADOX
5 THE COVERT PLOT:THREE EXAMPLES
6 TEXTUAL COMMENTARIES
7 NOSTROMO
8 HEROES,HEROINES,GENDER AND FEMINISM
9 CONRAD'S PLACE IN LITERARY HISTORY
PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTION