194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Elaine Pigeon obtained her PhD in English Studies in 2003 at the Université de Montréal where she currently teaches. Last year she lectured on Modernism at Concordia University, Montréal. She has had several chapters published in various books, including tow on James: Narring the Father, Lexington Books, 2000, and Depicting Desire, 2004.
