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Queer Impressions - Henry James' Art of Fiction (Hardcover)
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Queer Impressions - Henry James' Art of Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
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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 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.
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