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- Authoring "the real thing": Influence, Impressibility, and The Wings of
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Abstract: The preface to The Wings of the Dove (1902) begins with Henry James reflecting on what he takes to be the novel's central subject: "that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world" (AN 288). From James's description, readers familiar with The Wings of the Dove can make out a sketchy portrait of Milly Theale, an American heiress who yearns for life as intensely as the fates have doomed her to die. But the preface also seems to give the impression that James sees Milly as more than just the novel's heroine; she is a figure for the novel itself, "the idea, reduced to its essence." In this Jamesian ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Contingency, Opacity, Belief: Ethics in The Wings of the Dove
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Abstract: Kate Croy and Merton Densher, the secretly engaged couple in The Wings of the Dove, act as the plotters driving James's plot—and raise its central ethical questions. Kate and Densher are themselves attuned to those questions, resolving to be honest if anyone asks them about the engagement directly. "I know perfectly what I shall say," Kate tells her fiancé: "That I love you as I shall never in my life love any one else" (WD 71). As for Densher, because "Aunt Maud had demanded of him no promise that would tie his hands they should be able to propitiate their star in their own way and yet remain loyal" (69). As long as they don't act on the engagement, Kate and Densher feel they have done nothing wrong.Kate soon ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Louder Than Words' Actions and Reactions in James's Guy Domville
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Abstract: At a meeting of the Henry James reading group held virtually in 2021, the work under consideration was James's Guy Domville (1895), a three-act drama set in the late eighteenth century. A complex tale of moral duty and familial obligations, the plot concerns Guy's dilemma, as the last of the Domville line, as to whether he should abandon his vocation as a Catholic priest in order to marry and produce an heir. During the reading group discussion, there was much debate on one small section of dialogue between Guy and the villainous dandy Lord Devenish in the second act:LORD DEVENISH:I'm a neat figure, eh'GUY:Scented like a duchess! Beams of light in clouds of fragrance!LORD DEVENISH:Do I dazzle'—I love a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Novel Accents: Reading Realist Voices in The Bostonians
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Abstract: Prior to the nineteenth century, it would not have made sense to remark, as people often do to me in my daily experience as an immigrant to the United States, that someone has "an accent." While "accent" has meant "a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual" since the 1500s, using the term "without possessive or defining word or words" to mean "a regional or foreign accent" is first cited by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1808. We all have accents so to say someone has "an accent" is to declare that their accent differs from one's own. Henry James's 1886 novel, The Bostonians, begins with the narrator's acknowledgment that an accent most signifies for a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Alexa, e-Readings of "In the Cage," and Anticipations of Surveillance
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Abstract: E-reading "In the Cage" today can feel like the Henry James novella from 1898 was made for the days of surveillance capitalism.1 One can download the novella from LibraVox and listen to a woman with a British accent recite it. One can hear of the story's grocery-store marketplace, its Victorian supermarket capitalism, as Siri or Alexa devices in one's home also monitor the story's in-store sales dramas. One learns that that telegraphist, the story's protagonist, comes to speak the same prose Alexa and Siri speak. She has, with regard to her "set" of customers, "a sense of carrying their silly guilty secrets in her pocket, her small retentive brain, and thereby knowing so much more about them than they suspected or ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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