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This historical chapter will provide the context for the rest of the book by showing how food-related events correspond with the fiction of Joseph Conrad. For example, trade links with Malaysia and Singapore provide the backdrop for Conrad’s first novel, Almayer’s Folly (Chap. 3); while the transportation of food on foreign seas created the potential for shipwrecks and the realization of cannibalism, an act that threatened the notion of Europe as ‘civilized’ (Chap. 4). The growing politicisation of food in the late nineteenth century provides the context for The Secret Agent (Chap. 5) and uprisings in Russia based on food shortages and autocratic domination of the means of food production comprise the historical context for the final chapter on Under Western Eyes.
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Salmons, K. (2017). Historical Context 1890 to 1920. In: Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56623-8_2
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