Henry James And The Suspense Of Masculinity

Author : Leland S. Person
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203233

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Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity by Leland S. Person Pdf

Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland Person examines Henry James's subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Person argues that James exploited the taxonomic confusion of the times to experiment with alternative sexual and gender identities. In contrast to scholars who have tried to give a single label to James's sexuality, Person argues that establishing James's gender and sexual identity is less important than examining the novelist's shaping of male characters and his richly metaphorical language as an experiment in gender and sexual theorizing. Just as an author's creations can be animated by his or her own sexuality, Person contends, James's sexuality may be most usefully understood as something primarily aesthetic and textual. As Person shows in chapters devoted to some of this author's best-known novels—Roderick Hudson, The American, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl—James conducts a series of experiments in gender/sexual construction and deconstruction. He delights in positioning his male characters so that their gender and sexual orientations are reversed, ambiguous, and even multiple. Ultimately, he keeps male identity in suspense by pluralizing male subjectivity.

Author : Wibke Schniedermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030441098

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Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels by Wibke Schniedermann Pdf

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels. Reading James’s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, specifically Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic domination, reconciles some of the most fiercely disputed positions in James studies of the past decades. The close readings focus on three novels, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, providing a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to masculine power and oppression. James persistently narrates his characters as social agents whose perception, affects, and bodily practices are products of the social structures that they in turn continue to shape and reproduce. The chapters trace a development throughout James’s career that reflects a growing sensitivity for the concealment and attendant misrecognition of gendered domination.

Author : A. Despotopoulou,K. Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119840

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Henry James and the Supernatural by A. Despotopoulou,K. Reed Pdf

This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.

Author : Eric L. Haralson,Kendall Johnson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438117270

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Critical Companion to Henry James by Eric L. Haralson,Kendall Johnson Pdf

Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

Author : Melanie H. Ross,Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527561908

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Tracing Henry James by Melanie H. Ross,Greg W. Zacharias Pdf

Range and diversity are aims of Tracing Henry James, which brings together 28 essays by established and newer Henry James scholars from eight countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The essays are organized into an introductory section, a group of essays on Henry James’s shorter fiction, one on James’s longer fiction, one on The American Scene and James’s travel essays, one on James and criticism, and one on Henry James’s letters.

Author : P. Rawlings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288881

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Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies by P. Rawlings Pdf

This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories of narrative and architecture, James' letters, money and globalization.

Author : John Carlos Rowe,Eric Haralson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195121353

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A Historical Guide to Henry James by John Carlos Rowe,Eric Haralson Pdf

An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.

Author : Kathryn Wichelns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319718002

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Henry James's Feminist Afterlives by Kathryn Wichelns Pdf

This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless share complex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history of feminist scholarly responses to their work. Kathryn Wichelns draws upon James’ correspondence with Fields, as well as Dickinson’s and Duras’s revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of his project. By contextualizing his writing within a diverse set of feminist perspectives, each grounded in a specific time and place, as well as nineteenth-century views of queer male sexuality, Wichelns demonstrates the centrality of Henry James’s ambivalent identifications with women to his work.

Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133194

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The Critical Reception of Henry James by Linda Simon Pdf

Author : Maya Higashi Wakana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317082217

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Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels by Maya Higashi Wakana Pdf

Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus duplicitous, and goes on to show that James's art relies significantly on his powerful sense of the agonizing and even dangerous complications of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his work. Centrally informed by social thinkers such as G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana's study discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James's late novels. Persuasively argued, and rich in original close readings, her book makes an important contribution to James's studies and to theories of social interaction.

Author : Peter Collister
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317303541

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Writing the Self by Peter Collister Pdf

A monograph that re-evaluates the final decade of Henry James' creative life. It examines the narrative of "The American Scene", the autobiographical writing, a number of short stories and two incomplete novels: works which offer contrasting notations of the self.

Author : Karen Bourrier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472052486

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The Measure of Manliness by Karen Bourrier Pdf

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

Author : Mark Whalan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108808026

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The Cambridge History of American Modernism by Mark Whalan Pdf

The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

Author : Donatella Izzo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803225032

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Portraying the Lady by Donatella Izzo Pdf

From Daisy Miller to Isabel Archer to Maisie, female characters dominate the work of Henry James and, often, critical discussion of James's work. Donatella Izzo shifts that discussion to a different, more revealing, plane in this original interpretation of James's short fiction. By redirecting criticism from a biographical emphasis to a focus on James's engagement with the issues of representation, Izzo shows how these short stories actually question and investigate the cultural and ideological practices that produced women, both in literature and in society.øPortraying the Lady brings to light the experimental quality and inherent consistency of stories that have received little critical attention, all of which revolve around ideas at the core of the cultural representation of femininity at the time. Izzo shows how James, by testing and stretching these ideas in his imagery and plots, exposed and exploded the perverse logic and the ultimate implications of such culturally shared versions of femininity, thus revealing their oppressive quality for women and laying bare literature's complicity in reproducing and circulating them. Exposing James's texts as sensitive registers of women's roles during the Victorian-Edwardian era, this book demonstrates that his texts make readers aware of how those stereotypes operated.øBlending literary, art, and feminist criticism with narratological analysis and postmodern theory, this groundbreaking work restores a formal awareness to James studies within the wider theoretical concerns of feminist, gender, and cultural critiques.

Author : Daniel Hannah
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228006046

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Queer Atlantic by Daniel Hannah Pdf

The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire. Refusing to take white masculinity for granted, Daniel Hannah considers how the canonical novels of modernist fiction explore the ways that privilege is propped up and driven by factors of race, place, gender, and sexuality. Queer Atlantic examines the work of established writers – Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford – to reveal that anxieties surrounding white, masculine privilege and queer potential helped broaden the novel's formal possibilities. Demonstrating how masculine mobility, and often specifically transatlantic mobility, both enacts and queerly disorients male privilege, Hannah places these writers in the context of debates about naval impressment, piracy, emigration, colonization, and the "new imperialism." In the process he raises important questions about the current field of queer ethics, highlighting the strange companionship of queer openness to otherness and imperialist thought in modernist writing. Arguing for the surprising resilience of such fictional structures, Queer Atlantic provides a new understanding of modernism's emergence from a troubling of masculine privilege, mobility, and desire.