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Failed to feel it: Stoniness in Henry James’s 'The Wings of the Dove'

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If such inert characters are so alarming, it is partly because emotion itself has long been wedded to movement. Since antiquity, as Terada affirms, the prevailing trope organizing our understanding of emotion has been expression: "something lifted from a depth to the surface" (11). A cousin of "tone," which Richards describes as a speaker's "attitude to his listener" (182), feeling is a more general orientation toward a state of affairs: "We have an attitude towards it, some special direction...

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10.1353/hjr.2019.0021

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Keble College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Henry James Review Journal website
Volume:
40
Issue:
3
Pages:
234-243
Publication date:
2019-11-13
Acceptance date:
2019-05-01
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EISSN:
1080-6555
ISSN:
0273-0340
Pubs id:
pubs:1031511
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uuid:c7777cac-0300-4e8d-bd8d-1d903dcaa7cf
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pubs:1031511
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1031511
Deposit date:
2019-07-12

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