By Greg W. Zacharias
Written by way of the various world's so much unique Henry James students, this leading edge number of essays presents the main updated scholarship on James’s writings on hand this present day.
- Provides an important, updated connection with the paintings and scholarship of Henry James
- Features the writing of a variety of James students
- Places James’s writings inside nationwide contexts—American, English, French, and Italian
- Offers either an outline of up to date James scholarship and a leading edge source for learning very important person issues
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Camillo now lives in a past that is visitable and, to him, preferable to the present. James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878 25 “You admired his antique simplicity,” the narrator says crossly to Martha, “you see how far it goes . . ” ( James 1999a: 822). The effect that the Juno has on Camillo reconstitutes the past within the present, and replaces it: he becomes the ancient Roman more authentically and alarmingly than if he were tricked out in toga and sandals. Martha has thus become science-fiction to the Count, a visitant from the future, a theme that James was to revisit in his last novel, The Sense of the Past.
The ideal suitor did not present himself ” ( James 1999b: 126, 127, 133) and so the marriage is agreed. Elizabeth then breaks the engagement, and the distraught Crawford demands her reasons: “I do not love you,” she replies. The narrator is outraged: “had she literally no more sensibility than an expensive wax doll? . there was something monstrous in her quiet, flute-like utterance of Crawford’s damnation” ( James 1999b: 138, 139). We do not “go behind” Miss Ingram; she is seen only in the hostile glare of the narrator’s eye, but she in fact releases Crawford from the future hell of a loveless match.
This would seem the cue for Longmore to return to Europe, but he remains, his fervor chilled “by a feeling for which awe would hardly be too strong a name” ( James 1999a: 903). Does he hesitate through humility, or fear of purity more baleful than the corruption it confronts? At all events, marriage to pure, faithful, beautiful Madame de Mauves has been and is impossible, her “moral vision” frozen into received images and ideas – about marriage and social class, of herself and of what constitutes virtu in human relations.