{"title":"A (Post)Secular Portrait","authors":"Anamaria Seglie Clawson","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that James’s The Portrait of a Lady calls attention to the dynamic nature of belief in the modern age. While scholars of James’s late phase have begun to question the muddiness surrounding religion, analyses of his early work tend to focus on religion’s clear absence or presence. Such readings overlook the tenuous relationship between spiritual fragility and possibility that marks early novels such as Portrait. Isabel’s journey through spiritual enchantment and disillusionment reveals a dynamic yet unstable (post)secular state marked less by progress toward religious absence or wholeness than by driving questions about the possibilities of belief.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"174 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42618023","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":"Tales of a Master’s Uncertainty","authors":"J. Parker","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"E-1 - E-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45463802","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":"Narrative Time and Anti-Queer Prejudice in Henry James’s The Bostonians","authors":"W. Clark","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Recent critics provide compelling accounts of Olive Chancellor’s unprecedented queerness in The Bostonians. Where these accounts tend to focus on how James approaches Olive as a type, they often leave unexplored the full force of both Basil and the narrator’s prejudice in shaping Olive’s representation. This essay re-orients the discussion to the novel’s narratological structure and examines how James frames the politics of her sexual difference through a prejudicial narrator who erases sympathetic portrayals of Olive’s difference. James responds to dangers that queers faced in participating in public social life and offers narrative strategies by which to read Olive sympathetically. The essay offers a reconsideration of formal practices in narratology and queer theory and suggests that The Bostonians provides important context for reading queer narrative style at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"116 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45475882","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":"Painting, Fiction, and “the Real Lapse of Time” in The Ambassadors","authors":"Zachary Seager","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Critics have accounted for the action and style of The Ambassadors by describing what they believe Henry James learned from painting. Contrary to these positions, this essay suggests that The Ambassadors owes much to James’s understanding of a conflict between painting and fiction. This conflict helps to account for the way in which the climax of The Ambassadors unfolds, as well as explicating aspects of the novelist’s style. Key to this conflict is James’s emphasis on the classic distinction between the stasis of visual art and the extension in time afforded in literature.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"135 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49420823","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":"Anti-Capitalist Plasticity: The Ambassadors and the Biology of Rejuvenation","authors":"Chiyo Yoshii","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the idea of rejuvenation—of regaining one’s youth, even to the point of regaining an embryonic state—in Henry James’s The Ambassadors through the development of Lambert Strether as the main character. I show how James’s treatment of Strether’s quest for rejuvenation parallels the movements in science of his time, wherein discoveries were made concerning the possibility of a cell’s returning to an undifferentiated state. Further, I show how the concept of life’s plasticity, shared by James and the scientists of his era, essentially differs from the commercialized plasticity promoted by the late-nineteenth-century capitalist society.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"152 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44216277","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":"Not Noticing, Infallibly: The Critical Liaisons of Henry James, French Decadence, and Honoré de Balzac","authors":"C. Valentine","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Henry James published nearly a hundred articles on French literature, yet he rarely commented on its decadent doyens. After several early essays on Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, he turned a public cold shoulder to their fin-de-siècle progeny. Scholarship on Jamesian decadence has thus remained largely separate from discussions of his French criticism. This essay brings together those traditions by linking James’s sidelining of figures like Joris-Karl Huysmans and Pierre Louÿs with his concomitant volte-face on Honoré de Balzac. James’s late essays, I argue, creatively misread Balzac as pseudo-decadent, transmuting him into a mediating object for James’s coy, critical liaisons.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"115 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42665551","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":"Feeling Backward with Henry James: The Melancholy of History","authors":"D. McWhirter","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:James and his characters practice a melancholic attachment to the losses of the past.Drawing on a variety of James’s writings, and engaging recent theory concerned to rethink the mourning/melancholy binary, this essay argues that “feeling backward” in James is a specifically modern response to loss, a relation to the past necessitated by a modernity where traditional forms of mourning have become problematic.Often misunderstood as a nostalgic, self-destructive clinging to the past, Jamesian melancholia bears witness to an experience of loss and a relation to the past and the dead fundamentally altered yet strangely rendered precious by the circumstances of modernity.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46637798","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 “Same Secret Principle”","authors":"Sianne Ngai","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Henry James was fond of using and discussing “light” literary tricks. Taking his interest in the gimmick form seriously discloses an underexamined pattern in his mature fiction involving labor and secrecy. I argue that James’s later style—famously abstract but often crudely concrete—cannot be adequately grasped in isolation from this recurring storyline about clandestine labor. In telling the story of people covertly working to expose but then re-conceal a social secret, in texts ranging from “The Birthplace” to The Golden Bowl, James allegorizes the structurally occulted nature of reproductive labor in capitalism and also anticipates the rise of a service economy.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"48 7","pages":"44 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41267397","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 Paranoia of Travel: American Tourists in Henry James’s Late Fiction","authors":"Wenwen Guo","doi":"10.1353/hjr.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Participating in the conversation on the relationship between place and identity, this paper examines the peculiar characterizations in Henry James's late novels. It identifies a tourist paranoid turn of mind in a cluster of touring Americans in Europe--Milly Theale (The Wings of the Dove), Maggie Verver (The Golden Bowl), and Lambert Strether (The Ambassadors). A heightened need to secure a \"firm footing\" plunges these characters into a paranoid mode of existence, with a blind faith in knowledge and a strong suspicion of hidden truth.","PeriodicalId":43156,"journal":{"name":"HENRY JAMES REVIEW","volume":"41 1","pages":"24 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hjr.2020.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41895127","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}