{"title":"Waiting in The Wings of the Dove: A Reply to Harold Bloom and an Impatient Age","authors":"Timothy P. Jackson","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"Each time she turned in again, each time, in her impatience, she gave him up, it was to sound to a deeper depth, while she tasted the faint, flat emanation of things, the failure of fortune and of honour.\" Thus Henry James describes Kate Croy waiting for her father near the beginning of The Wings of the Dove. In this essay, I explore the deep connections James draws in the novel between (im)patience and (mis)fortune and (dis)honor. In teaching us how properly to wait—aesthetically, morally, and spiritually—he offers a reply to his critics and to our impatient age.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"274 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44680590","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's \"Poor Sensitive Gentlemen\" and the Quest for Meaning (and Happiness) in Three Late Tales: \"The Altar of the Dead,\" \"The Beast in the Jungle,\" and \"The Jolly Corner\"","authors":"Phyllis van Slyck","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In \"The Altar of the Dead,\" \"The Beast in the Jungle,\" and \"The Jolly Corner,\" three gentlemen engage in an intense quest for meaning and purpose, only to discover the self's most hidden and unacknowledged dimension—its fundamental lack. This lack is exposed through an intricate relationship between each character and an enigmatic female guide. The guide bears a striking resemblance to Constance Fenimore Woolson, suggestively echoing James's own struggle to come to terms with an intimate friendship. Each tale charts a quest, an evasion, a refusal and then, a subtle acceptance, resulting in a moment of painful joy that may be understood as happiness.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"252 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45529161","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":"\"Sick & Disordered a Creature\": Queerness, Disease, and Shame in The Portrait of a Lady","authors":"Eli Zuzovsky","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The idea of queerness as disease has pervaded Western imagination for centuries. Drawing on insights from queer theory and disability studies, I explore the pathologization of queerness in The Portrait of a Lady as reflected in Ralph Touchett's character. While serving historically to justify marginalization and persecution, the interplay between sexuality and disease in Portrait provides opportunities to push the boundaries of socially acceptable existence. Echoing James's struggles with illness and desire, Ralph's character allows his author to conceptualize a mode of being outside heteronormative, capitalist hegemony, transcending the shame society imposes upon the violators of its prescriptions of respectability.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"211 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47110866","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":"Mental Health and Happiness in James's \"Osborne's Revenge\"","authors":"Yuki Miyazawa","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Since Edmund Wilson's reading that linked The Turn of the Screw with the governess's mental health has become widely recognized, the novella is often read from that perspective. A similar motif can be seen in \"Osborne's Revenge\" (1868), in that both works deal with a letter from the dead. This essay argues that \"Osborne's Revenge\" can be read as an early model of The Turn of the Screw. In \"Osborne's Revenge,\" James contemplates the mental health of both the writer and reader of the letter and its effect on happiness.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"268 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48218434","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":"\"Just Americans\": The Happiness Industry in The Bostonians","authors":"Thomas Meaney","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite the uptick of interest in Henry James among Marxists and other scholars interested in what James had to say about capital and labor in his time, little attention has been paid to James's contribution to geopolitics. I argue that James has, in his own way, just as much to say about this question as Conrad. James's interest in the costly cohesion of American nationalism, the subtleties of transatlantic relationships, and the ideals that his American characters try to impose on them—all reflect the renegotiation of wider power relations in the period when America was poised to become a world power.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"245 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47131960","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":"Introduction","authors":"Greg Zacharias","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"When we began to plan this special issue of the Henry James Review, the world was more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a constant subject of deep concern, disruption, anxiety, and conflict. The 2016 Henry James Review forum issue (37.3) on \"Illness, Age, and Death\" brought into sharp focus, as Susan M. Griffin wrote in her introduction, that \"Illness, age, and death preoccupy Henry James from the beginning to the end of his writing life.\" Henry James's physical ailments motivated him to seek healthy living habits, from horseback riding and spa treatments, to walking and bicycling, for example.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"209 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49286233","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 in Contemporary Fiction: The Real Thing by Bethany Layne (review)","authors":"Á. Kovács","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"WORKS CITED Askew, Melvin. “Hawthorne, the Fall, and the Psychology of Maturity.” American Literature, vol. 34, no. 3, 1962, pp. 335–43. Coale, Samuel Chase. The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne Book Subtitle: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches. Camden, 2011. Crews, Frederick C. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes. Oxford UP, 1966. Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Edited and translated by James Strachey, 24 vols., Hogarth, 1953–74. Greven, David. The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender. Ohio State UP, 2012. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. General editors, William Charvat, Roy Harvey Pearce, Claude M. Simpson, and Thomas Woodson, 23 vols., Ohio State UP, 1962–97. James, Henry. Hawthorne. MacMillan, 1879. Kazin, Alfred. “Hawthorne: The Artist of New England.” Atlantic Monthly, December 1966, pp. 109–13. Laser, Marvin. “‘Head,’ ‘Heart, and Will’ in Hawthorne’s Psychology.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 10, no. 2, 1955, pp. 130–40. Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance. Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. Oxford UP, 1941. Millington, Richard. Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne’s Fiction. Princeton UP, 1992. Pfister, Joel. The Production of the Personal Life. Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction. Stanford UP, 1991. Trilling, Lionel. “Mind in the Modern World.” The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965–1975. Edited by Diana Trilling, Harcourt, 1981.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"E-10 - E-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46318146","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":"Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels: The Art of Concealment by Wibke Schniedermann (review)","authors":"S. Fu","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"E-11 - E-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44985619","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":"Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne's Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation by David Diamond (review)","authors":"Magnus Ullén","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"E-1 - E-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41811366","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}