Journal article
Henry James, George Eliot, and the "old-fashioned English novel"
- Abstract:
- Critics have tended to be reproving of Henry James's so-called "parasitic" relationship with George Eliot. Eschewing such characterizations, this article focuses instead upon the glimpse that James's early reviews of Eliot offer into his developing aspirations for the modern novel. In particular it traces how James's dissatisfaction with texts where Eliot had seemed to place insufficient demands upon her readers' faculties helped give rise to the innovative type of psychological realism underwriting his own work, which by soliciting the imagination of possibility would succeed in pushing the representational capacity of prose fiction deeper still into the life of the mind.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 248.8KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1353/hjr.2021.0023
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- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Journal:
- Henry James Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 192-212
- Publication date:
- 2021-11-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-03-15
- DOI:
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1080-6555
- ISSN:
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0273-0340
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1168449
- Local pid:
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pubs:1168449
- Deposit date:
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2021-03-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021, Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Johns Hopkins University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2021.0023
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