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Self-Touch in Henry James's Major Phase.

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Title/Author:	Self-Touch in Henry James's Major Phase./
Author:	Martin, James.
Description:	1 online resource (147 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	American literature. -
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ISBN:	9798379536824

Self-Touch in Henry James's Major Phase.
Martin, James.

Self-Touch in Henry James's Major Phase. - 1 online resource (147 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

The three novels of Henry James's "major phase" have alienated many readers in James's own time and today. I draw on the philosophical school of phenomenology, in particular the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a recent extension by the philosopher Richard Kearney, to suggest that a lack of self-touch by characters in these novels has contributed in a significant but previously unnoticed way to many readers' sense that these novels feel frustratingly intangible. I make a comparison to the instances of selftouch in other Edwardian novels to underline the difference. I suggest that James is putting forward a model of "middle-distance intimacy" in which intimates orbit each other at a fixed distance, neither coming closer nor moving further away. This kind of intimacy, for James, privileges the eye that sees from across the room over the hand that touches from up close. While this model of intimacy perplexed many readers in James's time and later, it is a valuable exploration of a different yet-for some-no less satisfactory kind of emotional life.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379536824Subjects--Topical Terms:

685398
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

British literatureIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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