Chance | Literary Precedents
Conrad's principal literary precedent for the elaborately contrived swindles is found in the novels of Dickens, especially in his depiction of the Anglo-Bengalee fraud of Tigg Montagne in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) and in some segments of Little Dorritt (1855-1857) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1866) as they relate to wealth. The many coincidences or chances in the novel share in the novelistic traditions that make virtues of chance meetings; again Dickens comes to mind as one who perfected the technique. Indeed Chance closely resembles the plot of a Dickens...
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