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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

byMaya Jasanoff

In The Dawn Watch, Maya Jasanoff presents a biographical portrait centered on joseph Conrad in a Global World. Its account follows central actors and turning points while showing how the story reflects questions in the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Nov 06, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9780143111047