Illustrations xix
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Theories of Community： Williams， Heidegger， and Others 1
2 Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset as a Model of Victorian Community 18
3 Individual and Community in The Return of the Native 93
4 Conrad's Colonial (Non)Community： Nostromo 139
5 Waves Theory： An Anachronistic Reading 232
6 Postmodern Communities in Pynchon and Cervantes 264
Coda 308
Notes 309
Index 327
