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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
The Dawn Watch Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author:Maya Jasanoff An astonishing new history of the world at the dawn of the 20th century viewed through the lens of Conrad's life and fiction. Award-winning author Maya Jasanoff's stunning new history uses the work of Joseph Conrad as a precursor and guide to our modern times. — Conrad's seminal novels - including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo... more » and The Secret Agent - are visions of the twentieth century: terror, genocide, industrialisation, transcontinental migration, multinational capitalism; a world filled with mixing, mobility, disorder, discovery, difference, appropriation, expropriation, going native and going rogue. Everything that Conrad described at the dawn of the twentieth century coloured the world at the beginning of the twenty-first.
A major synthesis of this era, The Worlds of Joseph Conrad paints a transcontinental picture of the fin-de-siecle as a turning point in international history. In breath-taking scope and argument, Maya Jasanoff offers a history for an international, internationally-engaged world, looking as much across national borders as within them, at the people who traversed them, and at the ideas and incidents that made Conrad's world - like ours - unprecedentedly mobile and dynamic.« less