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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction: Literature and the Discourse of Civilization | 1 |
| The Blinding Torch: Civilization in Literature | 2 | |
| Coming to Terms with "Civilization" | 14 | |
| The Law of Civilization: Progress Enthroned or Disease Unleashed? | 18 | |
| The Will to Civilization: Nation-State or State of Mind? | 25 | |
| The Rhetoric of Civilization: Preservation or Propaganda? | 28 | |
| Modernist Fiction and Cultural Discourse | 35 | |
| 2 | "Rebarbarizing Civilization": Conrad's African Fiction and Spencerian Sociology | 45 |
| Conrad and Spencer at the Fin de Siecle | 46 | |
| Spencer's "Militant/Industrial" Distinction in Heart of Darkness | 47 | |
| Spencer's "Rebarbarized" Civilization in Heart of Darkness | 53 | |
| Beyond Spencer: The Suggestion of a Military-Industrial Complex in Heart of Darkness | 55 | |
| From Progress to Parody: Spencer's "Law" and Conrad's "Outpost" | 57 | |
| 3 | The London Fog: Civilization as Rhetoric and Game in Conrad | 63 |
| The Rhetoric of Civilization in Heart of Darkness | 65 | |
| The Game of Civilization in The Secret Agent | 70 | |
| 4 | Civilization in Post-Great War Bloomsbury: Woolf's "Twenties" Novels and Bell's Civilization and On British Freedom | 79 |
| Woolf and Bell in the 1920s | 80 | |
| Censorship as a Threat to Civilization in Mrs. Dalloway and On British Freedom | 84 | |
| Women and Civilization in To the Lighthouse and Civilization | 89 | |
| Class in Mrs. Dalloway and Civilization | 93 | |
| Bell Ringers: Images of the Man in Woolf's Novels | 97 | |
| 5 | Discontent and Its Civilization: Rereading Joyce's "Paralyzed" Dubliner | 101 |
| The Illusion of a Future: Gerty MacDowell and Little Chandler | 103 | |
| The Myth of Enlightenment: The Experience of Leopold Bloom | 112 | |
| 6 | The Sense of an Ending: Spenglerian Decline and the Mexican Novels of Lawrence and Lowry | 121 |
| The Literary Fate of The Decline between the Wars | 121 | |
| The Spenglerian Shape of Civilization in The Plumed Serpent and Under the Volcano | 125 | |
| Spengler Dialogized: The Resistance to Civilization and the | ||
| Aesthetics of Decline in The Plumed Serpent and Under the Volcano | 133 | |
| 7 | The Subject of Civilization: Narcissism as Disease in Lowry's Early Fiction | 143 |
| Narcissus under the Volcano | 143 | |
| Self as Civilization: Psychoanalytic Matrices of Narcissism in Under the Volcano | 146 | |
| Narcissistic Civilization in Under the Volcano and Ultramarine | 152 | |
| Notes | 163 | |
| Works Cited | 189 | |
| Index | 205 |
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Nikko McDowall
reviewed The blinding torch on November 15, 2013
The blinding torch
Mayday, Mayday !! The GR blurb for this book is for an entirely DIFFERENT book. 6-3-2012.
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