문화적 혼동에 대한 풍자로서의 헨리 제임스의 『보스턴 사람들』
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Henry James had a strong interest in the Naturalistic novel while he was writing The Bostonians. This had a considerable influence on the way in which he dealt with the controversial theme of the novel, that is, the collision of a radical feminism and a staunch male chauvinism. Although James explores the conflict of confused sexual sentiments of the time, he transforms the subject into a collision of the Northern and the Southern culture by selectively adopting the values of Naturalistic writing. This paper examines the way in which James turns the ideological confrontation into a cultural clash by reifying Olive Chancellor and Basil Ransom, the two main protagonists of the novel, as the cultural embodiments of New England and the South respectively. The self-contradictory reform impulse of Olive is conceived by her clumsy concoction of the various Northern cultural elements of the previous age such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism, egalitarianism, and the abolitionist movement. Likewise, Basil’s stubborn reactionary conservatism is rooted in his anachronical belief of the impoverished values of the previous age such as chivalry, patriarchy, and the pastoral ideal of the South. Moreover, he is still deeply saturated with the social and emotional aftermath of the Civil War. James satirizes the absurdity of the ideological clash which is enacted by the two opposing cultural heroes of the North and the South.
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Henry James had a strong interest in the Naturalistic novel while he was writing The Bostonians. This had a considerable influence on the way in which he dealt with the controversial theme of the novel, that is, the collision of a radical feminism and a staunch male chauvinism. Although James explores the conflict of confused sexual sentiments of the time, he transforms the subject into a collision of the Northern and the Southern culture by selectively adopting the values of Naturalistic writing. This paper examines the way in which James turns the ideological confrontation into a cultural clash by reifying Olive Chancellor and Basil Ransom, the two main protagonists of the novel, as the cultural embodiments of New England and the South respectively. The self-contradictory reform impulse of Olive is conceived by her clumsy concoction of the various Northern cultural elements of the previous age such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism, egalitarianism, and the abolitionist movement. Likewise, Basil’s stubborn reactionary conservatism is rooted in his anachronical belief of the impoverished values of the previous age such as chivalry, patriarchy, and the pastoral ideal of the South. Moreover, he is still deeply saturated with the social and emotional aftermath of the Civil War. James satirizes the absurdity of the ideological clash which is enacted by the two opposing cultural heroes of the North and the South.
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