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Article: Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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In 1993 the Henry James Society sponsored two major conferences, "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics: Henry James in the New Century," and "Redefining Henry James's Place in Culture." While cultural studies are not explicit concerns of these three new books on James, all of them claim to reappraise James's place in cultural, intellectual and literary traditions. Edwin Sill Fussell's The Catholic Side of Henry James offers a reading of James's fiction in terms of its representations "of identifiably Roman Catholic rites, sacraments, beliefs, practices, and fictive personages, for aesthetic reasons additional to or instead of religious reasons" (p. ix). While Fussell ...