Enacting History in Henry James: Narrative, Power, and Ethics

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Narrative, Power, and Ethics

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Edited by Gert Buelens, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2010
Print publication year:: 1997
Online ISBN:: 9780511553660
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553660

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1900-1945

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The Jamesian mode of writing, it has been claimed, actively works against an understanding of the way truth, history and power circulate in his texts. In this collection of essays, leading scholars of James analyse the strategies James used to address these crucial issues. Enacting History in Henry James claims that, because the type of knowledge available in James's fiction is never of a cognitive kind, the reader can never know 'truth' in any verifiable sense. James's writing instead promises an experiential type of knowledge, one that is attained by participating in the power games and moral dramas that unfold within the text. This collection argues that reading James ultimately requires not just an emotional responsiveness, but also an ethical assumption of responsibility for the act of reading. By placing James's work in a fresh theoretical context, this book throws fresh light on this most enigmatic of writers.

'… preparing lectures for a course on 'American Philosophy and Literature', this book provides excellent insights and useful guides for navigating Henry James’s novels.'

Jacob L. Goodson Source: Journal of American Studies of Turkey

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Narrative, Power, and Ethics

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Notes on contributors
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgments
pp xiii-xiii

List of abbreviations
pp xiv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-15

1 - Power relations in the novels of James: the ‘liberal’ and the ‘radical’ version
pp 16-39

2 - Multiple germs, metaphorical systems, and moral fluctuation in The Ambassadors
pp 40-60

3 - James and the ethics of control: aspiring architects and their floating creatures
pp 61-74

4 - James and the shadow of the Roman Empire: manners and the consenting victim
pp 75-92

5 - ‘What Maisie knew’: Henry James's Bildungsroman of the artist as queer moralist
pp 93-108

6 - The double narrative of ‘The Beast in the Jungle’: ethical plot, ironical plot, and the play of power
pp 109-125

7 - Homoeroticism, identity, and agency in James's late tales
pp 126-147

8 - ‘A provision full of responsibilities’: senses of the past in Henry James's fourth phase
pp 148-165

9 - Possessing the American scene: race and vulgarity, seduction and judgment
pp 166-192

10 - History, narrative, and responsibility: speech acts in ‘The Aspern Papers’
pp 193-210

Index
pp 211-215

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