Like hypatia before the mob: Desire, resentment, and sacrifice in the bostonians (an anthropoetics)

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-90

  Bertonneau, Thomas F ^a  

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EID: 0005617267     PISSN: 08919356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2902970     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Henry James, The Bostonians, in Henry James: Novels, 1881-1886, ed. William T. Stafford (New York: Library of America, 1985), p. 1, 217. Further references to this work are to this edition and appear in the text
2. London Daily News, 25 February 1886; quoted in Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Kevin J. Hayes (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), p. 153
3. F. W. Dupee, Henry James (n.p.: William Sloanc, 1951), p. 152. Idiffer from Dupee only in displacing the double-notion of perversencss and derangement from Olive's preference for Komen to her possessiveness and manipulation of the love-object. Dupee takes a positive view of the novel as indeed "the most considerable product of the social historian in James" (p. 153). I agree
4. Henry-James: A Life (New York: Harper and Row, 1985),p.312
5. Henry James and the "Woman Business" (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989), p. 226
6. See Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1995), p. 109
7. Ender immediately explains in a footnote, however, that Sarah Koffman and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick have shown the irrelevancy of Girard to a feminist critique (p. 110n). Girard effectively answers the feminist critique of his anthropology in the interview chapter of Richard J. Golsan's René Girard and Myth: An Introduction (New-York: Garland, 1993)
8. René Girard, Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, trans. Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer (London: Athlone Press, 1987), pp. 288, 295
9. Eric L. Gans, The End of Culture: Toward a Generative Anthropology (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1985), p. 225
10. For these ideas, see especially Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1989)
11. René Girard, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure, trans. Yvonne Frcccero (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965), p. 294
12. Henry James, The American, in Novels, 1871-1880, ed. William T. Stafford (New York: Library of America, 1983), p. 784. Further references to this work appear in the text
13. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Neferliti to Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Vale Univ. Press, 1990), p. 607
14. Science and Faith: The Anthropology of Revelation (Savage, Md.: Rowman and Little-field, 1990), p. 107
15. Originary Thinking: Elements of Generative Anthropology (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1993), p. 45