The Empty Centre of Conrad's Nostromo: A New Economic Approach
| cam.issuedOnline | 2018-08-30 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, CL | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-13T13:56:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-13T13:56:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Criticism of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo frequently alights on the problem of the novel’s so-called ‘empty centre’. This presumed absence has been read in numerous ways: as a feature of the novel’s style, as indicative of ideological difficulty, and as a failure of imagination on the part of its author. This essay takes a New Economic critical approach to argue that a re-evaluation of Nostromo’s empty centre is overdue. In a reading that advances existing Marxist and postcolonial readings of Conrad’s work, the essay offers an analysis of three varieties of ‘empty centre’ found in the novel: history, silver, and the ‘material interest’. Ultimately, Conrad is shown to locate an empty centre in contemporary economic thought, and to construct a mimesis of this absence in the novel’s rhetorical and narrative structures. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.39864 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1471-6836 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-6836 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/292711 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | |
| dc.publisher.url | https://academic.oup.com/camqtly/article/47/3/201/5087878 | |
| dc.subject | 47 Language, Communication and Culture | |
| dc.subject | 4705 Literary Studies | |
| dc.title | The Empty Centre of Conrad's Nostromo: A New Economic Approach | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-07-03 | |
| prism.endingPage | 221 | |
| prism.issueIdentifier | 3 | |
| prism.publicationName | The Cambridge Quarterly | |
| prism.startingPage | 201 | |
| prism.volume | 47 | |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2018-07-03 | |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
| rioxxterms.version | AM | |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1093/camqtly/bfy018 |
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