The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James Walton Paperback 9781487585754

The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry JamesAuthor(s): Priscilla Walton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487585754, 978-1487585754\nSynopsis\nThe women of Henry Jamess novels have intrigued critics for a hundred years. Priscilla Walton brings a post-structuralist feminist perspective to Jamess work. Drawing on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray, she focuses on the constructed Otherness of the Feminine. \n\n Traditional critics of James have tried to unify and hence confine his works but in so doing they have ignored the polyvalent nature of his writings. Walton challenges such limited readings by opening up the texts to interpretation and tracing the ways in which the narratives resist closure.\n\n She contends that in Jamess texts the representations of women foreground their limitations that Realist Masculine referentiality has placed on both the Fem.