¹ Henceforth cited as WS.

² Bell, Ian F. A., “Money, History and Writing in Henry James: Assaying Washington Square,” in Bell, Ian F. A. (ed.), Henry James: Fiction as History (London & Totowa, N.J.: Vision and Barnes & Noble, 1984), II.Google Scholar Henceforth cited as Bell, , “Money, History and Writing.”Google Scholar

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⁶ This in spite of Bell's concern, especially in “Money, History and Writing,” with “styles of writing.” He praises Leo Bersani's emphasis on James's concern with meaning as construction and the power relations implied by such construction (“Money, History and Writing,” 13–14Google Scholar), yet Bell at no point questions the status of his own discourse. See 66–67 below for discussion of my own discourse in this respect.

⁷ Bell, , J.A.S., 58, footnote 31.Google Scholar

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⁹ Bennett, Tony, “The ‘Text in Itself’: A Symposium,” Southern Review, 17, 2 (07 1984), 122 (emphasis added).Google Scholar

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¹² Bell, , J.A.S., 67Google Scholar. The problematic relationship between Marxism and feminism has been explored in a number of recent texts, notably: Kuhn, A. & Wolpe, Anne Marie (eds.), Feminism and Materialism (London: RKP 1978)Google Scholar; Barrett, M., Women's Oppression Today (London: Verso, 1980)Google Scholar; Sargent, Lydia (ed.), The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, (London: Pluto Press, 1981)Google Scholar; Delphy, C., Close to Home (London: Hutchinson, 1984)Google Scholar. However, even more problematic and very little explored, as Kaplan, Cora has noted [see her “Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism,” in Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Greene, G. & Kahn, C. (London: Methuen, 1985), 151Google Scholar, and her Sea Changes: Culture and Feminism (London: Verso, 1986)Google Scholar] is the relationship between Marxism, feminism and psychoanalysis which I broach here.

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¹⁵ “… the story moves inevitably towards closure which is also disclosure, the dissolution of enigma through the re-establishment of order … The hierarchy works above all by means of a privileged discourse which places as subordinate all the discourses that are literally or figuratively between inverted commas” (Belsey, , 70).Google Scholar

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