Queer impressions : Henry James's art of fiction
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Queer impressions : Henry James's art of fiction
（Studies in major literary authors）
Routledge, 2005
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"A Routledge series"--Added t.p
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady, this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in particular, her Emersonian idealism. In order to expose Emerson's blind spot, a lacuna at the very centre of his New England Transcendentalism, James draws on the Gothic effects of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, thereby producing an intensification of Isabel Archer's psychological state and precipitating her awakening to a fuller, heightened consciousness. Thus Romanticism takes an aesthetic turn, becoming distinctly Paterian and unleashing queer possibilities that are further developed in James's subsequent fiction.
This book follows the Paterian thread, leading to "The Author of Beltraffio" and Theophile Gauthier, and thereby establishing an important connection with French culture. Drawing on James's famous analogy between the art of fiction and the art of the painter, the book explores a possible link to the Impressionist painters associated with the literary circle Emile Zola dominated. It then turns to "A New England Winter," a tale about an American Impressionist painter, and finds traces leading back to James's "initiation premiere." The book closes with an exploration of the possible sources of Kate Croy's "unspeakable" father in The Wings of the Dove and proposes a possible intertext, one that provides direct insight into the Victorian closet.
目次
Introduction: Engendering Mastery 1Chapter 1 Emerson's Blind Spot: Romantic Effects in The Portrait of a Lady 24It's just like a novel! 32Haunting Father Figures 38Henry James Sr. & Minny Temple 45Italy & Hawthorne 57James's Gothic Effects 64Cousin Ralph's Queer Tutelage 69Chapter 2 James's Art of Fiction: A Queer Blend of Aestheticism, Naturalism & Impressionism 80The Black Beltraffio 88Traces of James Sr. 95Art for Art's Sake 100The French Connection 104The French Impressionist Movement 111James & the Second Impressionist Exhibition 117Edmond Duranty's La Nouvelle Peinture 120A Queer Impression 130Chapter 3 The Legacy of the Unspeakable Father in The Wings of the Dove 151The Unspeakable Lionel Croy 157What has he done, if no one can name it? 169John Addington Symonds's Queer Stance 174The Author of Beltraffio Revisited 187A Queer Blend of Nature & Nurture 193Confessing the Self 203Speaking Out of the Double Bind 209Conclusion 223Works Cited 226
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