4 avril 2011
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Sarah Wadsworth, « Refusing to Write Like Henry James: Women Reforming Realism in Fin-de-Siècle America », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.9067
In her novel Roger Hunt (1892)—a novel of near Jamesian nuance and irony—Celia Parker Woolley incorporates a scene in which a handful of characters engage in “psychological analysis” (35) of the eponymous antihero: a brilliant but unscrupulous egotist who has abandoned his alcoholic wife and persuaded a naïve, infatuated young woman to unite with him in a bigamous marriage. Following several pages of discussion of the scandalous incident and its perpetrator, Kitty Somers, Hunt’s long-time fri...