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Georgina's Reasons

Georgina's Reasons

James, Henry

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1721147233
ISBN13: 9781721147236
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 14 2018
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Henry James's 1884 tale Georgina's Reasons presents readers with an insoluble hermeneutic problem regarding its heroine's motivation. This essay applies four interpretative frameworks - theological, political, scientific and geographical - to the question of the heroine's reasons. Each way of interpreting the story aligns with a genre of nineteenth-century fiction: sensation novel, New Woman novel, naturalism and the international tale. The problem of the heroine's motivation thus provides an occasion for consideration of the stylistic choices available to James in the mid-1880s, and of the capacities and limitations of each style for developing his chosen subject - a woman whose unconventional and destructive behaviour defies rational understanding.

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