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Article: Invading other people's territory: The Inheritors.(Joseph Conrad's novels)
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- Conradiana
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- March 22, 2005
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To the dear memory of Ian Watt and Hans van Marie, "the best of old fellows"
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The title The Inheritors seems to have enjoyed wide popularity over the years: It was used for a play in three acts by Susan Glaspell (1924) and a collection of poems by Richard Church (1957), then by William Golding (1955) and Harold Robbins (1973) for their novels and, more or less recently, by countless others, (1) who in a sense thus invaded other people's territory. In this paper, however, I focus not on reciprocal influences and stimulations, but restrict myself to examining some aspects of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel signed by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox ...