{"title":"Sounding the Fin de Siècle: Conversation, Silence, and Community in The Awkward Age and \"In the Cage\"","authors":"Merle A. Williams","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the 1890s, a lively debate about \"the revolt of the daughters\" against outdated maternal constraints sought to change the experience of young women before marriage. This controversy sets the context for an examination of conversation and silence in The Awkward Age and \"In the Cage.\" Social exchange is seen as occurring within two mutually deconstructing frameworks of \"community\": the traditional understanding of cohesive, sustaining relations and Jean-Luc Nancy's account of an \"inoperative\" singular-plurality, inflected by painful alienation. James's characters thus find their sophisticated verbal encounters traced by resonant silences as social mores shift disconcertingly to accommodate a challenging modernity.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"259 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42429023","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 … in the Jungle: The Sounds—and the Sounding—of Silence in Late James","authors":"Michael W. Anesko","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How does one write a story in which nothing happens? And how can one help an undergraduate reader make sense of it? Almost in a word, nothing, is a précis of \"The Beast in the Jungle.\" Nothing connotes absence, ellipsis, reticence, silence; and these are the narrative strategies—and techniques—that Henry James employs in constructing this tale about a man (\"the man\") to whom nothing on earth was to have happened.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"247 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43735978","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":"Eavesdropping on Henry James: Reading Gender in the Correspondence of William and Henry","authors":"Sarah Wadsworth","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Adopting feminist approaches to rhetorical theory and literary history, this essay analyzes variations in tone and resonance in a sequence of extracts from early letters between William and Henry James that focus on gender. The essay shows how \"eavesdropping,\" a rhetorical tactic articulated by Krista Ratcliffe in Rhetorical Listening (2005), can help locate shifts in the way Henry James thought about, wrote about, and related to women through his long literary apprenticeship. It argues that learning to listen to women was as crucial to his education as a novelist as the reading, reviewing, and sightseeing he documented in public writing.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"280 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44101853","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 Turn of the Screw\" on the Turntable","authors":"M. Rubery","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay considers the difference between reading Henry James's fiction in print and hearing it read aloud. The development of sound recording technologies helped make James's fiction accessible to a broader audience, including people with disabilities. Sound recordings ranging from the first full-length recording of James's fiction, a performance of \"The Turn of the Screw\" made in 1942 by the American Foundation for the Blind, to recent audiobook productions of that novella will be taken up here as a way of addressing issues concerning aurality, interpretation, performance, reception, and the remediation of printed texts into sonic formats.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"233 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47222694","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":"Music, Voice, and the Sound of Henry James","authors":"L. Kramer","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2006-2007, Lawrence Kramer composed a song cycle for baritone Michael Halliwell based on prose passages from Henry James. As far as the singer and composer could determine, this cycle, Six Songs and an Epilogue to The Wings of the Dove, was the first of its kind, even though James had inspired numerous operas (the subject of Halliwell's Opera and the Novel). Looking back in 2019, Kramer observed that the cycle's essential theme was voice and that it offered a hermeneutic window into what setting James's prose could reveal both about the sound of his never-recorded voice and about voice in general.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"219 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47116352","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":"\"Mildly Theatrical\": Attending (to) The Awkward Age","authors":"P. Horne","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An extraordinary experiment in James's career, refusing to \"go behind\" and conjuring up a hypothetical acute spectator (and \"listener\") whose interpretation of the action is frequently invoked to nudge ours in the right direction, The Awkward Age is full of the sound of talk—it is a novel largely conducted through \"really constructive dialogue, dialogue organic and dramatic, speaking for itself, representing and embodying substance and form.\" Closely following on the most intense period of James's engagement with the theater, it stages an ideal production that asks for a kind and level of attention, an inward performance of the text that even seasoned readers of late James struggle to sustain, while offering multiple rewards and satisfactions. This essay aims to watch and listen closely to the working of this process in the hope of bringing into focus some features of James's evolving treatment of conversation, a crucial matter as he moves into the \"major phase.\"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"271 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43633860","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 remembers Eugenio\": Polyglot James","authors":"Brendan Whitmarsh","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper contests a long-standing and increasingly popular idea about James's late novels: that all of the characters in them share the same distinctive linguistic style and share that style as well with the narrative voice. The situation of characters whose speech is only obliquely represented suggests instead that we should understand the only relative stylistic uniformity of James's late novels as in part a reflection of the incomplete exclusionary work that constitutes their main communities. I will also propose that we see Milly Theale as an exception to her circle's linguistic hermeticism.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"289 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42693387","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 New York by Michael D. Snediker (review)","authors":"R. Hampson","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"295 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44578222","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":"Love and Depth in the American Novel: From Stowe to James by Ashley C. Barnes (review)","authors":"Jamie Campbell Martin","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"E-10 - E-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66458152","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 \"unprovoked harsh note\" of Experience","authors":"D. Izzo","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay discusses the aural dimension in The Ambassadors within the broader framework of the novel's representation of the sensorial domain and of affect as the body's capacity to be touched and transformed by encounters. By examining the manifestations of the aural in the text as a correlate of or metaphoric substitute for the haptic and tracing its manifold literal, metaphorical, and conceptual connections with other perceptual and cognitive realms, the essay argues that the sonic recapitulates the novel's exploration of the subversive force of affect and simultaneously points to its epistemological limits.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"193 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49423610","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}