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- The Time-Scheme of The Golden Bowl
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Abstract: This eternal time-question is accordingly, for the novelist, always there and always formidable.Edith Wharton’s notorious mock-innocent question to Henry James about The Golden Bowl—“What was your idea in suspending the principal characters in ‘The Golden Bowl’ in the void'”—presumes a failure in the novel, a fault, to which James’s “disturbed” response, in her telling, appears to concede all the ground: “My dear—I didn’t know I had!” (Wharton 191).1 The exchange was recounted only in 1934, eighteen years after James’s death, as an anecdote in A Backward Glance, and no action replay of the original conversation is available that would allow us to gauge its tone—to judge whether the Master’s seeming consternation ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
- Sounding the Deep “Oh!” in The Wings of the Dove
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Abstract: To better express her desire, Milly Theale, the American heiress and infirm protagonist of The Wings of the Dove, speaks in metaphors. In one scene midway through the novel, she follows the lead of her companion Susan Stringham, who likens their social surroundings to a labyrinth:“My dear child, we move in a labyrinth.”“Of course we do. That’s just the fun of it!” said Milly with a strange gaiety. Then she added: “Don’t tell me that—in this for instance—there are not abysses. I want abysses.”Here, Milly distinguishes between labyrinths and abysses: two spatial figures that are comparable in their potential for expressing disorientation but distinct in their implications. Mrs. Stringham compares the terrain of high ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
- Re-reading for the Plot: The Erotics of Uncertainty and Readers’
“Re-vision” in The Golden Bowl-
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Abstract: At the opening of Henry James’s 1904 novel, The Golden Bowl, readers are introduced to the character Prince Amerigo as he wanders down Bond Street. If the Prince is himself somewhat purposeless—“the young man’s movements,” we are told, “betrayed no consistency of attention” (27)—the same cannot be said for the typical reader, whose passage through the scene as it unfolds is motivated, as it would be in any novel, by the primary task of gaining purchase on the plot. In Peter Brooks’s famous formulation, the reading of plot can be conceived as a particular kind of desire, an impulse that “carries us forward, onward, through the text,” in anticipation of the moment when we will have finished the narrative and can make ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
- Loving James, Abstractly
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Abstract: For readers of Henry James who also have some enthusiasm for reading literary criticism on James, the act of reading often brings a confusion about what they really love to read. It’s a confusion originating from a strange pleasure of comparing critics’ words with James’s own. When reading Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s analysis of “The Beast in the Jungle,” those same readers find themselves provoked, hooked, irritated, and fascinated by her sentences formed with a Jamesian texture of abstraction. In referring to the narrator’s detachment from May Bartram’s perspective throughout the plot progression, Sedgwick writes that the reader doesn’t know her “emotional determinants” and “erotic structures” (199). A conceptual ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
- Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and
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Abstract: What did Henry James think of medieval buildings and literary texts, and of attempts on the part of nineteenth-century commentators to interpret those works' What for James was the place of medieval narrative in prose fiction' How did he view the Arthurian quest narrative' And, most urgently: why, given the considerable impact of medieval romance upon contemporaries, did Arthurian materials play so marginal a role in James’s own work' These are the questions that prompt the present article, and readers are likely to have questions of their own, since my title invokes a series of terms—“Victorian,” “medieval,” “modern,” and “criticism”—that might merit more commentary than is possible here. The first three are ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
- Punctuation and the Writer/Reader Relationship: Adding to Vernon Lee’s
Consideration of The Ambassadors-
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Abstract: In Vernon Lee’s essay, “The Handling of Words,” she chooses six well-known authors,1 one of whom is Henry James, and takes at random 500 words from a novel by each one to show a comparison of words and their effects on the reader. As interesting as the other five explorations are, I shall concentrate on Lee’s comments on her selection from The Ambassadors and elaborate more fully on James’s use of punctuation as an integral part of what Lee posits as the relationship formed by the words that link the writer and the reader.A word about punctuation: historically and practically, punctuation came into its own with the invention of the printing press and the subsequent recognition of the efficiency of standardized ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
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