By Andrew Taylor
The highbrow dating among Henry James and his father proved to be an influential source for the novelist. Andrew Taylor examines the character of either men's engagement with autobiographical options, problems with gender reform, and the language of faith. He argues for a analyzing of Henry James that's proficient through an know-how of paternal inheritance. throughout the research of quite a lot of novels and texts, he demonstrates how James Senior's discussion together with his contemporaries, reminiscent of Emerson and Whitman, anticipates James's personal theories of fiction and selfhood.
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28 James’s reply to a now lost letter from Adams, one presumably in the same vein, is a concentrated statement of his artistic belief, reiterating a faith in the vitality and significance of consciousness as a defining characteristic of human existence: You see I still, in presence of life (or of what you deny to be such), have reactions – as many as possible – and the book I sent you is a proof of them. It’s, I suppose, because I am that queer monster the artist, an obstinate finality, an inexhaustible sensibility.
As Ross Posnock noticed, qualities customarily held to compromise the integrity of the self are deliberately (even perversely) celebrated by James. Indeed in the writing of this autobiography the very assumption of an essential, organic self is what James is seeking to undermine. By effectively revising conventional attitudes to such notions as blankness, vagueness and envy, he attempts to locate himself at some distance from the reigning values of an increasingly aggressive and ambitiously accumulative society.
For James, Renan offers an attractive possibility of the clerical frame of mind, ‘the groundwork’ as he calls it, ‘embroidered’ with less ascetic interests, with ‘an artistic feeling’, an ‘urbanity’ and ‘the air of being permeated by civilization’ (EWP, 637). For the sake of comparison, we can turn to James’s review eight years earlier of another clerical memoir, that of the American Unitarian minister Ezra Stiles Gannett. Gannett, he notes, ‘was a born minister; he stepped straight from his school days into the pulpit, and looked at the world, ever afterwards, from the pulpit alone’ (EAE, 279).