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Masculine domination in the works of Henry James

  • More than 100 years after Henry James’s death, criticism is still working through unresolved gender issues in his fiction. This study proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels that fills a crucial vacancy in the literature. Reading James’s intricately woven 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. With its focus on gender-related symbolic domination, this study demonstrates this approach’s potential to probe the depths of James’s fictional social worlds while developing the narratological tools to do so. Many critics have paid attention to the relational nature of James’s social fictions as well as his talent for capturing unspoken, invisible, hidden social constraints. Blatantly missing from the literature is a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to power and oppression. The present study closes this research gap. It 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. Moreover, it traces a development throughout James’s career that reflects his growing sensitivity for the stubbornness of some seemingly insurmountable social constraints. James’s fictional social worlds are relational ones through and through. This study is the first sustained effort to investigate the way in which his narratives capture this interrelatedness.

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Verfasserangaben:Wibke Schniedermann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-487957
Verlagsort:Frankfurt am Main
Gutachter*in:Christa BuschendorfGND, Julika Griem
Dokumentart:Dissertation
Sprache:Englisch
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online):18.01.2019
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2014
Veröffentlichende Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Titel verleihende Institution:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Datum der Abschlussprüfung:25.06.2015
Datum der Freischaltung:07.02.2019
Freies Schlagwort / Tag:Henry James; Pierre Bourdieu; masculine domination; symbolic violence
Seitenzahl:216
HeBIS-PPN:442431066
Institute:Neuere Philologien
DDC-Klassifikation:8 Literatur / 82 Englische, altenglische Literaturen / 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht