The Inwardness of Things

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Debra Romanick Baldwin is an associate professor of English at the University of Dallas.

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The Inwardness of Things examines Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in a long-standing and timeless dispute between poetry and philosophy.

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Introduction

Part One - Hidden Contingencies: Approaching Inwardness in the Rhetoric of the Private Letters

1. John Galsworthy: An Invitation to Dare
2. F. Warrington Dawson: A Lesson in the Lower Case
3. R.B. Cunninghame Graham: The Two Languages of Engagement
4. E.L. "Ted" Sanderson: A Humanizing Benediction
5. Edward Noble: Sensational Advice and the Poetic Faculty

Part Two - Crafting Inwardness: The Art of Narrative Solidarity

6. Temperament and the Aims of a Deliberate Art
7. The Difficulty of Telling in *Heart of Darkness
   *8. Beneath the Masks of the "Narcissus"
8. "The Brute" Within
9. The Inwardness of a Simple Idea in "Prince Roman"
10. Looking More Deeply in The Secret Agent
11. Inwardness and Autocracy in *Under Western Eyes
    *13. Conradian Eros and the Longing for Shared Understanding

Part Three - A Modern Voice in an Ancient Quarrel

14. Artist vs. Thinker
15. To Bertrand Russell from a Common Mortal
16. Thinkers Ancient and Modern in "The Planter of Malata" and Victory
17. Socrates Reimagined in Chance
18. The Quiet Success of "A Rather Simple Man" in "Typhoon"

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