Ebook: Conradian contracts: exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination

Commerce and return in Almayer's folly -- "Trans-ports of love": exchange as practice and narrative -- Never keeping to oneself: a total social fact in "Typhoon" and "The secret sharer". Paternal discourse and contractual revision in Under western eyes -- "The duel": rules and reciprocities, or blows for sheer love -- A "supreme illusion": acts of recognition in The secret agent -- Trade, meaning and the prospects of self-transformation in Lord Jim -- The end of potlatching: gift and prestige in Nostromo -- Sympathy, generosity and the business of womanhood in Chance -- Conclusions and words after Conrad's.