Leland S. Person
University of Cincinnati
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Archive | 1999
Leland S. Person
‘You bewilder me a little,’ says the narrator of ‘The Death of the Lion’ to Lady Augusta Minch, ‘in the age we live in one gets lost among the genders and the pronouns.’ The occasion for this provocative confession is the anticipated arrival at Mrs Wimbush’s country estate of Guy Walsingham, the ‘pretty little girl’ author of ‘Obsessions’, and Dora Forbes, the red-moustachioed, ‘indubitable male’ author of ‘The Other Way Round’. The narrator’s bewilderment efficiently links and problematises the issue of gender and writing that looms large in James’s stories of writers and artists. Typically, these tales feature the close relationship between an older male writer and a young male admirer who devotes himself to the older man as ‘the friend, the lover, the knower, the protector’, a male relationship complicated in various ways: by a wife or fiancee, by other admirers (male or female), by the marketplace that James repeatedly decries. Writing and reading between men — the interplay of male desire among ‘the genders and the pronouns’ — is particularly prevalent in three of James’s stories of writers and artists, ‘The Author of “Beltraffio”’ (1884), ‘The Middle Years’ (1893) and ‘The Death of the Lion’ (1894).1
Canadian Review of American Studies | 2015
Leland S. Person
A l’hiver 2003, au College Smith, j’ai assiste a un symposium sur la carriere de Newton Arvin, une rencontre qui devait permettre au College de reparer le tort cause a Arvin par le traitement honteux qu’on lui a reserve, en 1960, apres qu’il eut ete arrete et eut plaide coupable a des accusations de possession de materiel pornographique. Plusieurs raisons m’avaient amene a participer a ce symposium. L’ete d’avant, lors d’une reunion de la Nathaniel Hawthorne Society – qui avait eu lieu a ce meme college – j’avais presente une communication sur Arvin, l’un des meilleurs parmi les critiques de la premiere heure de la litterature americaine du 19e siecle. Et, autre raison au moins aussi importante a mes yeux, j’allais passer un peu de temps avec Robert, qui en etait l’un des principaux invites; il avait eu la delicate attention de me faire inviter a un souper donne chez la rectrice du College, Carol Christ, dans sa residence de fonction sur le campus. La conference qu’il a donnee sur Arvin ce jour-la a ete l’une de ses dernieres et, bien que ce soit pour moi un grand honneur que d’etre invite a diriger ce numero special de la Canadian Review of American Studies, j’aurais prefere que l’occasion ne s’en presente jamais.
American Literature | 1989
John P. McWilliams; Leland S. Person
Archive | 2003
Leland S. Person
American Quarterly | 1985
Leland S. Person
Archive | 2008
Jana L. Argersinger; Leland S. Person
The Henry James Review | 2003
Robert K. Martin; Leland S. Person
Archive | 2007
Leland S. Person
Poe Studies | 2008
Leland S. Person
American Literature | 1978
Leland S. Person