{"title":"Alexa, e-Readings of \"In the Cage,\" and Anticipations of Surveillance Capitalism","authors":"A. Sonstegard","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What transmogrifies when \"In the Cage\" becomes Web \"content\"? What shifts in the story's class-alliances, as its capitalism intensifies? Printed texts anticipate the encroachments of capitalism on the literary marketplace, but e-texts measure readers' immersion in the surveillance capitalism. The author reaches out across economic classes to appeal for his amanuenses' empathy, but on the remediated \"page,\" the story mechanizes and commodifies its personal assistants. As a remediation of automation at Cocker's supermarket, \"In the Cage\" invites e-readers to anticipate their places in cages and machines.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"183 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47748310","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":"Contingency, Opacity, Belief: Ethics in The Wings of the Dove","authors":"Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Wings of the Dove brings out a fierce desire to know—a desire the text often refuses to satisfy. I argue that this denial of knowledge acts ethically: drawing on unexpected common ground between Davidson and Levinas, I see knowledge-formation as fitting new information into existing schema. Wings marks the inadequacy of those schema, instead proposing a particularized, contingent encounter with characters who escape our grasp. Crucially, this is not an ethics grounded only in denial: even as James forecloses access to characters' consciousness, his stylistic choices attest to their inner lives as unavailable yet not empty.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"133 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43026293","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":"Sounding the Deep “Oh!” in The Wings of the Dove","authors":"Kelly Hoffer","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reads the repetition of the interjection “Oh!” in the dialogue of The Wings of the Dove as revealing the pressure of the unsaid and unsayable in the late Jamesian novel. By asserting that this pressure is key to understanding the relationship between character, consciousness, and expression, this essay responds to literary scholarship that contends that Jamesian consciousness is not mimetic of human psychology. While this “anti-psychological” criticism is an important corrective to psychological determinism, such an approach underestimates the importance of the illegibility of character interiority to the linguistic skepticism at the heart of James’s portrayal of consciousness.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"23 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42190285","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":"Loving James, Abstractly","authors":"Chunlin Men","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues for paying more attention to an under-researched affective dimension in Jamesian abstraction and explores how and why Jamesian abstraction in his narrative works has been persistently reproduced and ambivalently loved as a non-essentialized cultural capital by literary critics. Setting James’s literary style into dialogue with Karl Marx’s dialectics of abstraction in Grundrisse, this essay tries to broaden our understanding of Jamesian abstraction by taking it as a textual labor that plays out a society-organizing logic fascinated with transacting, negotiating, and mediating different concrete interpretive perspectives, testing theoretical hypothesis, and dramatizing general concerns.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"63 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42526649","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":"Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism","authors":"T. Lustig","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers two case studies. The first examines James’s encounters with medieval buildings in his early travel writings. The second takes as its starting point James’s involvement in The Quest of the Holy Grail, a text which accompanied an 1895 exhibition of paintings by Edwin Austin Abbey. While James’s knowledge of medieval architectural forms seems both confident and coherent, his awareness of medieval literary forms seems more tentative and even sketchy. Reasons for this disparity are considered, but medieval romance motifs are nevertheless found to inform James’s conception of criticism from the outset of his career.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"79 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42962177","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":"Re-reading for the Plot: The Erotics of Uncertainty and Readers’ “Re-vision” in The Golden Bowl","authors":"Lizzie Mundell-Perkins","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Analyzing key passages of psychological narration in The Golden Bowl through a phenomenological lens, this essay identifies features of James’s notoriously “difficult” late style that generate uncertainty about what is being represented, leading to re-reading. It considers how this re-reading participates in the events of the narrative, arguing that the novel’s storytelling progresses not only when readers finally “understand” a sentence or passage, but also in prior periods of confusion or disorientation. It proposes that the experience of “narrative uncertainty” (related to, but distinct from “narrative desire”) can be an important site of narrative formation in James’s later fiction.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"41 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43935216","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":"Punctuation and the Writer/Reader Relationship: Adding to Vernon Lee’s Consideration of The Ambassadors","authors":"Mary F. Burns","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Vernon Lee’s essay, “The Handling of Words,” she comments on a selection from The Ambassadors to illustrate her theory of how a writer uses words to direct the thoughts and feelings of the reader in order to re-create the writer’s intent. In addition to words, I will show that James’s use of punctuation is an integral part of what Lee posits as the relationship created between the writer and the reader. Lee’s focus on words and my addition of punctuation marks present an interesting approach to revealing a usually unnoticed “subset” of meaning and purpose in a writer’s work.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"100 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48771633","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}
P. Horne, Kelly Hoffer, Lizzie Mundell-Perkins, Chunlin Men, T. Lustig, Mary F. Burns
{"title":"The Time-Scheme of The Golden Bowl","authors":"P. Horne, Kelly Hoffer, Lizzie Mundell-Perkins, Chunlin Men, T. Lustig, Mary F. Burns","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay, undertaken as part of the editing of The Golden Bowl for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, attempts to determine the internal and external time-scheme of the novel from the many clues, often oblique and implicit, which James distributes through the work. It reveals a minor internal inconsistency in James's dating, which will be emended in the Edition; and reflects on the importance of this firm framework of dates in the calendar for the novel's portrayal of complex, evolving psychological relations.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"44 1","pages":"1 - 100 - 113 - 22 - 23 - 40 - 41 - 62 - 63 - 78 - 79 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49121378","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":"Bedridden but Blessed: Toxic Positivity in The Princess Casamassima","authors":"Sarah Kimmet","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article I compare Rosy Muniment's \"contradictious optimism\" with the twenty-first-century phenomenon of toxic positivity, arguing that these two phenomena share the same structure and aims. The Princess Casamassima, therefore, offers us a window into the way both phenomena function within the conservative political systems that characterize the novel's world and our own. I also discuss how Rosy Muniment's invalidism and her coping mechanisms serve as a trope for the capitalist subject. More importantly, however, I argue that the novel provides an antidote to Rosy's toxic positivity and to the political and economic agendas it supports.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"224 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43824749","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 Invalid's Future: Queer Negativity in The Portrait of a Lady","authors":"Vinayak Dewan","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Portrait of a Lady is the story of Isabel Archer's search for a suitable husband, haunted by the sickly presence of her dying cousin Ralph Touchett. The novel is energized by the search for marital success yet driven by the patient, yet inevitable, culmination in Ralph's death. The two plots of death and marriage come to mirror each other through a dynamic affective exchange between Ralph and Isabel. While the marriage plot envisages what Lee Edelman calls reproductive futurism, the parallel death plot defies the logic that present decisions ought to be subservient to a prosperous future.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"237 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48813070","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}