{"title":"\"She Did What She Liked!\": Ethics of Freedom and Desire in Henry James's \"Daisy Miller\"","authors":"Seokwon Yang","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Revising J. Hillis Miller's account of ethics from the perspectives of Kant's philosophy of freedom and Lacan's theory of desire, this essay offers an alternative ethical criticism of Daisy Miller. The critical tendency to regard Daisy as a cultural type representing American innocence misses Daisy's singularity and reduces the novella's ethical dimension to Winterbourne's reading of her. Measured according to fidelity to one's desire, the core of Lacanian ethics, Daisy exemplifies the ethical act of risking one's socio-symbolic identity in defiance of cultural mandates and confronting fatal consequences, thereby embodying innocence without the guilt of ceding desire.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"146 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46888550","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":"\"One Should Be One of the Best\": Isabel Archer's Theory of Election","authors":"J. Houser","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that among Isabel Archer's \"many theories,\" the one that dominates her consciousness is a \"theory of election,\" an elitist, fatalistic worldview Henry James borrowed from the Protestant doctrines of election and predestination. It is a theory founded on the premise that one must be destined to be \"one of the best,\" or else life is not worth living, and that her actions will show if she is so destined. The essay also questions some previous readings that have connected Isabel with Protestantism, proposing that these may be less true to her character and story than the one presented here.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"127 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42372669","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 \"The Middle Years\" (1893) and Its Vergilian Undercurrents","authors":"T. Franklinos","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that Henry James's \"The Middle Years\" (1893) engages with themes and imagery from Vergil's Georgics and with the ancient biographical traditions associated with him to articulate the literary concerns and aspirations of its protagonist Dencombe. The importance of pastoral to the setting of the story and the coloring of the relationship between the protagonist and his admirer, Doctor Hugh, is also treated. Given the similarities between James and Dencombe, engagement with Vergil's works and his literary career has ramifications for our understanding of James's self-presentation in the 1890s and as the figure behind the New York Edition.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"164 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45703915","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 Framed—A Partial Portrait (Part 2)","authors":"Michael W. Anesko","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a further look at some of the art works—and their histories—that will be examined in Henry James Framed (forthcoming in 2022 from University of Nebraska Press). As the examples here will show, Henry James's role as a sitter was far from passive: indeed, one might even say that he actively collaborated on many occasions when his likeness was being taken by artists in media other than print.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"109 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45799040","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":"What Maisie Heard: Sound, Sexuality, and the Subjective Camera","authors":"Chip Badley","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the relations among sound, sexuality, and the subjective camera in the conceptual artist Babette Mangolte's film . Inspired by Henry James' novel of the same name, Mangolte's film disrupts Maisie's, and audiences', perception of the domestic sphere through its acousmatic soundtrack. Mangolte's Maisie embodies the polymorphously perverse child whose discovery of sexuality is inextricable from the film's feminist critique of spectatorship. Although Maisie witnesses adult sexuality as a series of repeated primal scenes, the film imagines new forms of desire, pleasure, and identification glimpsed through Maisie's perspective formally enacted via the subjective camera.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"178 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42212514","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 Beast Imperative","authors":"Nick Adler","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper offers an asexual response to Eve Sedgwick's essay, \"The Beast in the Closet.\" There is little noteworthy in the fact that the acclaimed antihomophobic reading of Henry James's \"The Beast in the Jungle\" does not reference asexuality—the term was little used as a queer identity category before the early 2000s. What this paper addresses are the ways in which Sedgwick's reading eliminates the possibility of asexuality in characters and renders her work incompatible with modern asexuality theory. The article examines assumptions made in Sedgwick's analysis, present asexual alternatives, and considers whether the two readings may be reconciled.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"108 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42076221","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 Queerness of William James","authors":"Korey Garibaldi, Spencer Hawkins","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Generations of scholars have posited that Henry and William James are exact opposites of one another: the latter as the virile ideal of his effeminate younger brother. This essay joins a growing body of scholarship in challenging these lingering binaries. Through an examination of their childhoods, private relationships, Henry's published writing, William's canonical scholarly texts, their correspondence, and a host of other sources, a deeper sense of queer commonalities between these brothers comes into focus.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"41 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41525105","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":"Trenching on the Ground of Fiction: \"A Tragedy of Error\"","authors":"S. Teahan","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay develops a rhetorical reading of Henry James's first published and critically neglected story. It links Puttenham's trope of syllepsis to what Hillis Miller terms the antithetical double word, arguing that James's figures of doubleness and duplicity unmoor the distinctions between such binaries as land and water, friend and enemy, self and other, literal and metaphorical, or tragedy and comedy. Driven by the antithetical double words \"trench\" and \"ground,\" \"A Tragedy of Error\" stages an oxymoronic comic death. Oedipus Rex is a key intertext for a story whose tropology opens backwards and forwards into James's personal history, fiction, and autobiography.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"20 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48648869","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":"\"What a Disordered Editor!\": Revisiting The American Scene","authors":"Michael W. Anesko","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"81 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42914875","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":"A \"Smell of the Future\": Henrietta Stackpole, Henry James, and the Female Journalist Problem","authors":"H. Plummer","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Henrietta Stackpole in The Portrait of a Lady is a more nuanced personification of a publicity-hungry press than James's other journalist characters. As a minor character, she allows James to exercise his vision of non-intrusive writing by keeping this public-facing woman's private life away from her fellow characters and his readers and neutralizing her risk to exposing others' private lives and overly disrupting social norms of gender and publicity. Her professional success, romantic relationship, and role as Isabel Archer's foil show that James was at best ambivalent toward and saw an uncertain future for journalism, privacy, and women.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47210532","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}