By Gert Buelens
The Jamesian mode of writing, it's been claimed, actively works opposed to an knowing of how fact, heritage and gear circulation in his texts. Enacting heritage in Henry James argues in its place that James' writing can provide an experiential form of wisdom, person who is attained by way of actively partaking within the energy video games and ethical dramas that spread in the textual content. interpreting James hence calls for not only an emotional responsiveness, but in addition a moral assumption of accountability for the act of interpreting. This ebook locations James' paintings in a clean theoretical context and throws new mild in this such a lot enigmatic of writers.
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This, I think, is the reason why James so persistently screens social relations in search of elements of deception, coercion, exploitation, and victimization, and why he organizes his novels and tales around a whole phenomenology of social manipulation, ranging from breach of contract to the 'acquisition' of another person as part of one's own collection of precious objects. So extensive is the connection between knowledge and social manipulation in James, in fact, that one eventually has to place him at the opposite end of Howells.
Love', on the other hand, evokes Dorothea Krook's reading of The Golden Bowl as 'a great fable — one of the greatest in modern European literature - of the redemption of man by the transforming power of human love' {The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James (Cambridge University Press, 1962), 240). On this point, see Richard Brodhead's analysis of the domestic novel as a disciplinary strategy {Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Chicago Press, 1993), 13-47).
If social experience is pervaded by strategies of domination and coercion, however, then knowledge is constantly threatened. This, I think, is the reason why James so persistently screens social relations in search of elements of deception, coercion, exploitation, and victimization, and why he organizes his novels and tales around a whole phenomenology of social manipulation, ranging from breach of contract to the 'acquisition' of another person as part of one's own collection of precious objects.