{"title":"Pictures and Texts: Henry James in the Century","authors":"Michael W. Anesko","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The occasion for reproducing an image of Henry James in the November 1882 issue of the Century magazine—where it was to complement not only the author's travel piece on \"Venice\" but, more importantly, a major essay-review by William Dean Howells (\"Henry James, Jr.\")—resulted in not one but three likenesses. Such almost simultaneous multiplication of his portrait complicates (and enriches) our understanding of James's \"aura\" at a particular historical moment, when the publication of The Portrait of a Lady signaled his arrival as a major American writer.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"239 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47846707","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 Happy Mixture\": Fiction and the Popular Media Arts in James's \"John Delavoy\"","authors":"June Hee Chung","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the 1890s, James wrote several articles and metafictional stories analyzing mass print's changes to literature in his times. This essay examines a subset of such pieces, ones that seem to focus on the dramatic arts but do so in the context of emerging media technologies and business forms. Common imagery, plot, and characters in \"John Delavoy,\" the major phase novels, and his article on Alexandre Dumas fils show textual traces of James adding to his repertoire of literary devices. Besides simulating print illustrations' visual effects, he mimics a theatrically performed human voice, anticipating today's digitized, multi-mediated focus on sensoria.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"252 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46903628","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":"\"intricate, overlapped, interweaved, and endless\": Emerson, Henry James, and the Nature of Moral Life","authors":"Prentiss Clark","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay suggests that emphasis on the stylistic difference between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James obscures a radical kinship that exists not only in their perception of moral life but also in the way the texture of their writing expresses this perception. Accordingly, this essay is a prolegomena to a study of how James's prose—in particular the late Jamesian sentence—does what an Emerson essay does: shows the way \"Our life is consentaneous and far-related,\" that \"relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always\"; shows, in effect, the nature of moral life.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"265 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42344917","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":"Alice the Excrescence: Disability Aesthetics and Sympathetic Form in The Diary of Alice James","authors":"Elizabeth A. Wells","doi":"10.1353/HJR.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HJR.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay focuses on the subject of disability in The Diary of Alice James. While multiple critics have discussed James's invalidism, this essay is the first to suggest that James conceives of disability in relation to her aesthetics. I argue that James represents sympathetic discord by thematizing \"excrescence,\" a term she initially uses to disparage a child with a disability but then repurposes to describe her own experiences. By analyzing her imaginative rendering of excrescence, I argue that James's views on disability enable her to craft a unique model of sympathetic form, one worthy of further study in Jamesian scholarship.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"152 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HJR.2021.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49640025","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 et autres: Bibliography, Otherness, and \"the great name of Balzac\"","authors":"O. Herford","doi":"10.1353/HJR.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HJR.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article tracks James's imaginative relation to Honoré de Balzac from the scenes of childhood encounter with Balzacian Paris in A Small Boy and Others (1913) to the five critical essays on Balzac that James published between 1875 and 1913, focusing on his attention to elements of bibliography and textual history and to the apprehensions of otherness they produce. James's sustained engagement with the bibliographical condition of Balzac's work models his lifelong concern with the activity of discrimination. It also invites us to discriminate, as readers of James, between modes of otherness: to register not just the otherness of alterity but an otherness of the additional—the distinctive mode of otherness, profoundly characteristic of his critical and autobiographical writings, that is indicated by the phrase \"and others.\"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"112 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HJR.2021.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48917982","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":"George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager by Lucie Sutherland (review)","authors":"Sarah Chambré","doi":"10.1353/HJR.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HJR.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"E-11 - E-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HJR.2021.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43454192","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":"\"You Must Allow Me to Measure Myself\": Problems of Disability in Henry James's The Outcry","authors":"A. Gomez","doi":"10.1353/HJR.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HJR.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The field of disability studies interrogates the many ways narrative and rhetorical devices depend upon disability to construct conceptions about normalcy. While the fields of disability and James studies have begun to intersect in recent years, the present state of discourse is still insufficient. Henry James's often overlooked late novel The Outcry provides a striking confluence of personal biography and industrial history to illuminate conditions and representations of disability. Views about ableness, ailment, and personal choice are fueled by social factors and the novel demonstrates how these expectations can prove more disabling than disability itself.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"165 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HJR.2021.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43112872","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":"\"Unseen Place[s],\" Unlifted Corners: Portrait's Narrative Gaps","authors":"Vanessa Lily Chung","doi":"10.1353/HJR.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HJR.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:James skips two significant temporal intervals of Isabel Archer's story: her formative year of travel, and the first three years of her marriage—the more studied ellipsis of The Portrait of a Lady. This essay takes the earlier ellipsis, James's sidestepping Isabel's year of travel—including her acceptance of Gilbert Osmond's proposal—as a case study for examining the novelist's use of both temporal and non-temporal narrative gaps, or ellipses and paralipses, to borrow the terms of Gérard Genette's narratology. James, I argue by reading (and re-reading) chapter 31 of Portrait, realizes his idea for the novel through its gaps.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"111 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HJR.2021.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45843755","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 Aspern Papers\" and Modern Biography","authors":"J. Meyers","doi":"10.1353/HJR.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HJR.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"51 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HJR.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48619057","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}