Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels

The Art of Concealment
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-44111-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels. Reading James’s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, specifically Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic domination, reconciles some of the most fiercely disputed positions in James studies of the past decades. The close readings focus on three novels, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, providing a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to masculine power and oppression. James persistently narrates his characters as social agents whose perception, affects, and bodily practices are products of the social structures that they in turn continue to shape and reproduce. The chapters trace a development throughout James’s career that reflects a growing sensitivity for the concealment and attendant misrecognition of gendered domination.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schniedermann, Wibke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Symbolic Punishment and Social Death in Daisy Miller: A Study.- 3. The Presence of Absence in The Portrait of a Lady.- 4. The Grip of Inheritance: Capital Resources in The Wings of the Dove.- 5. How to Survive One’s Inheritance in The Golden Bowl.- 6. Epilogue: James’s “Culture Vultures”.

Über Autor(innen)

Wibke Schniedermann is a postdoctoral researcher at Giessen University, Germany. She received a PhD from Frankfurt University, Germany, and has published on Henry James, poverty and homelessness in U.S. culture, surveillance cultures, and the depiction of class issues in serial television. Her research focuses on narrative representation of space, affect, and inequality.