Paying particular attention to the women in the two novels, compare Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to The Ambassadors.
What psychological theory did the profession of advertising adopt by 1903? How does this relate to the novel?
Argue for an interpretation of the novel that inverts the normal, positive assessment of Strether. That is, he has been duped by Chad, whose theatrics make him a natural advertising guru, into purchasing a theory of life that ends his engagement to Mrs. Newsome.
History has changed dramatically in the last generation. National stories.....
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