Illustrations xix
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Theories of Community: Williams, Heidegger, and Others 1
2 Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset as a Model of Victorian Community 18
3 Individual and Community in The Return of the Native 93
4 Conrad's Colonial (Non)Community: Nostromo 139
5 Waves Theory: An Anachronistic Reading 232
6 Postmodern Communities in Pynchon and Cervantes 264
Coda 308
Notes 309
Index 327