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Eurydice Reclaimed: Language, Gender and Voice in Henry James.@@@Henry James and the "Woman Business."@@@The Rule of Money: Gender, Class, and Exchange Economics in the Fiction of Henry James
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This article is published in American Literature.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eurydice.read more
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The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud
TL;DR: The Nets of Modernism as mentioned in this paper examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to vampirism and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture.
Vernacular modernism: zhang ailing and high and low modern fiction in urban china
TL;DR: The Touch of the Real: Sensation, Realism and Zhang Ailing's Modernist Chuanqi as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the study of modern love and middleclass sexuality.
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Interrogating the Legibility of Queer Female Subjectivity: Rethinking May Bartram's "Bracketed" Character in "The Beast in the Jungle"
TL;DR: The authors investigate both the historical and critical elision of May Bartram's subjectivity in Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle" and offer another queer reading that advocates for revealing forms of intimacy and camaraderie between queer men and women.
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Henry James and the Plunder of Sentiment: Building the House of Modernism from The Spoils of Poynton
TL;DR: The authors examines the vestiges of the sentimental plot in Henry James's The Spoils of Poynton and demonstrates that domestic fiction, written primarily by a cluster of American women authors in the nineteenth century, played a formative role in the advent of literary modernism.
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Branding Milly Theale: The Capital Case of The Wings of the Dove
TL;DR: In this paper, a materialist interpretation of James's 1902 novel is presented, in which Milly Theale's iconographic association with capital underpins a thoroughgoing critique of class relations at the beginning of the twentieth century.