The Alien in our Midst
Henry James Through the Eyes of Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf, Henry James, realism, modernism, experimentation, representationAbstract
“The alien in our midst”: Henry James through the eyes of Virginia Woolf. For a young woman who “writes” in early twentieth-century England, Henry James is an inescapable and uncomfortable presence, marked by ambivalences – craftsman vs. artificer, adulterer of English conventions vs. conjurer of an immediate old order – an artist about whom she never forgets the mark of difference: the American, even if not entirely so. Through Virginia Woolf’s writings on Henry James, we see a writer aware of the tradition but searching for forms more attentive to the new demands of the material. As this article argues, her reflections illuminate the representational specificity of each one and, perhaps without realizing the exact dimension of the dilemma, they also suggest profound correspondences between realism and modernism, between old experiments and contemporary inquisitions.
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