{"title":"Henry James and the Device of the Observer: A Study on Microexpressions","authors":"Rivky Mondal","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study centers on the imaginary observer who crops up in Henry James’s late fiction to read characters’ faces. As he contemplates the microexpressions that leak out in moments of tension, the observer briefly registers the interaction between what characters say (or don’t) and their observable emotions. This paper outlines how James conducts the observer into scenes from The Awkward Age and The Golden Bowl to conjure affects and model responses for the reader. Drawing on what the observerinfersfrom microexpressions,I suggest that James uses the device to channel how he wants certain scenes to signify.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"15 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48436650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expressive Interiors and Perceptual Pleasure in Henry James’s The Bostonians","authors":"A. Summers","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the role that aesthetic objects and physical structures play in erotic exchanges between Olive Chancellor and Verena Tarrant in The Bostonians. The novel’s preoccupation with the tasteful interior of Olive’s home exposes James’s repeated conflation of character, desire, and material world through descriptions of perceptual experience. As a result, the novel’s apparent organization around rigid demarcations of space and distinct sexual categories obscures its far more contradictory modes of classification, which continually blur distinctions between the novel’s human figures and the objects and spaces that surround them.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"77 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46696654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Form of Affect in The Ambassadors","authors":"Chunlin Men","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay sets James’s formal concerns in The Ambassadors in dialogue with what is re-contextualized by Fredric Jameson as the unnamed emotion, with the aim to explore James’s impressionist registering apparatus in accumulating yet not capturing the aura of affect through narratologicalcraftsmanships and stylistic choices. Focusing on temporality, tone, and the presentation of scenes that signal Strether’s meta-affect of disconcertedness which puts into invalidity his cognitive codification, this essay suggests that the act of representing the affect in The Ambassadorsself-reflexively borders on its non-representation, rendering the text proper as an affect that eludes conceptualization.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"31 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46384358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does James Love His Isabel? Revisiting Affect in the Author-Character Relation","authors":"C. Valentine","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2019.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2019.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"40 1","pages":"226 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2019.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44963452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The discovery was tremendous\": Sex, Secrets, and Selfhood in The Portrait of a Lady","authors":"J. Krzeminski","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2019.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2019.0026","url":null,"abstract":"“Her life should always be in harmony with the most pleasing impression she should produce; she would be what she appeared, and she would appear what she was” (105), writes Henry James of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady (1881). What, however, is she? Is she “a young woman of extraordinary profundity . . . [and] a prodigy of learning” as her admirers think (103)? Or is she guilty of creating and inhabiting a fantasy life based in romantic ideals—“you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You’re not enough in contact with reality” (268)—as her friend Henrietta Stackpole accuses her? James writes Isabel as a series of images that refuse to coalesce into a singular figure with definitive motives, morals, feelings, and goals. In fact, Isabel’s main struggle is the development of a socially acceptable and therefore “cohesive” sense of self that is not formed relationally, that is, by and dependent on any given person—her uncle, her cousin, her best friend, her husband, his former lover, his daughter—or situation. In what follows, I address Isabel’s fragmented character development and the longstanding debate about whether James’s female characters ever achieve individuality and freedom from societal constraints. I question whether oft-valorized depictions of delineated individuality—in Lynn Huffer’s terms, an “overinvest[ment] in coherent narrative female subjects” (62)—should even be the desired goal. Engaging theories and conversations concerning what constitutes the subject—a self that is static, shattered, and/or split—I argue that Isabel Archer arrives at a fragmented, non-relational sense of self when she dwells in her emotions, decides to actively refuse the role of mother and thereby stalls the reproduction of a heteronormative future, and embraces the disintegration of her previous self-conceptions. In realizing her lack of desire for her husband, Gilbert Osmond, and in then choosing to weaponize her body in the emotional war he wages by refusing her role as vessel of reproductive futurity (i.e.,","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"40 1","pages":"276 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2019.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45258697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Oasis of Horror: Affirming the Affect of The Portrait of a Lady","authors":"Julian Murphet","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2019.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2019.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"40 1","pages":"194 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2019.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49211246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling American: Poetic Language and Collective Identity in A Small Boy and Others","authors":"Ivana Cikes","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2019.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2019.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"40 1","pages":"262 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2019.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44621294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Differences: Henry James and the Affective Predicaments of the Literary Market","authors":"D. Swain","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2019.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2019.0022","url":null,"abstract":"literary production in the late nineteenth century intensified anxieties","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"40 1","pages":"244 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2019.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47747340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Play Is the Thing: Affect and Affordances in Alice, William, and Henry James","authors":"Jane F. Thrailkill","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2019.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2019.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Literary scholars have argued that the mid-1890s were a turning point for Henry James’s fictional technique, marking a period when his fiction eschews the encounter with physical places and persons for the “bodiless” realm of the modern novel of interiority (Kurnick 3). Virginia Woolf is among these observers. Commenting on James’s story “The Friends of Friends,” in which a character continues to serve as the story’s focalizing consciousness even after she dies, Woolf writes,","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"40 1","pages":"212 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2019.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44775776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}