Half the projection of his mind: mental space and the limits of imagination in Henry James's The ambassadors and "The jolly corner"

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Half the projection of his mind: mental space and the limits of imagination in Henry James's The ambassadors and "The jolly corner"

Identifier

honSP2018Quimby

Subjects

["Literature."]

Type

["Text"]

Genre

["Honors Theses"]

Format

["application/pdf"]

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General Notes

Honors thesis research directed by the Department of English.

Extent

38 pages

Language

["English"]

Collection Name

["Towson University Honors Theses"]

Author

Quimby, Daniel

Department or Program

["Towson University. Department of English"]

Abstract

[From Introduction]: While not a political radical in any meaningful sense, James expresses through his critique unease with the tendency of capitalism to undermine the very subjects it purports to cultivate. James's texts demonstrate the ways in which characters imaginatively reconstruct spaces for themselves, as extensions of their selves, that appear lost in the modern era, whether in the form of Strether's longing for romantic agrarianism or Brydon's yearning for the idealized business individual. While both texts reflect the ways in which characters' imaginative activity in part produces their spatial environment, they nevertheless also reveal the limits of these efforts. Indeed, both texts highlight the ways in which imagination inevitably draws on its exterior environment to fashion itself and the way in which ideology effaces its externally constituted components to appear wholly self-encapsulated. That is, James's texts question the autonomy of human consciousness and desire, which his characters regard as a means of escaping aspects of the material world.

Contents

Odd starts of the historic sense: narrative structure and urban ideology in Henry James's The ambassadors and the American scene -- "Great builded voids, great crowded stillnesses:" the alienated subject in Hentry James's "The jolly corner"

Date Published

31 October 2019

Author (Controlled)

["Quimby, Daniel"]

Thesis Advisor

["Hovind, Jacob R.","Vincent, Jonathan E."]

Degree Note

2018-05

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