Overview
- Showcases how Pierre Bourdieu’s seminal social concepts are key to revisiting a canonical author of James’s caliber
- Reveals how 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
- Traces a development throughout James’s career that reflects his growing sensitivity for the stubbornness of some seemingly insurmountable social constraints
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels
Book Subtitle: The Art of Concealment
Authors: Wibke Schniedermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44109-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44108-1Published: 21 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44111-1Published: 22 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44109-8Published: 20 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 177
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Culture and Gender