The inwardness of things : Joseph Conrad and the voice of poetry / Debra Romanick Baldwin.

Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One
Hidden Contingencies: Approaching Inwardness in the Rhetoric of the Private Letters
1 An Invitation to Dare
2 A Lesson in the Lower Case
3 The Two Languages of Engagement
4 A Humanizing Benediction
5 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"
9 "The Brute" Within
10 The Inwardness of a Simple Idea in "Prince Roman"
11 "Inwardness" in The Secret Agent
12 Holy Crime and Hidden Truths: The Inner Life of 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"
Notes
Works Cited
Index