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