젠더, 계급, 낭만적 이성애와 여성의 지식: 헨리 제임스의 『전신창구 안에서』
Gender, Class, and Subversive Knowledge in Henry James’s In the Cage
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Henry James's novella In the Cage (1898) represents an emergence of new literacy, as a new information technology telegraph became widely used in the late nineteenth century. Telegraph, whose open form made private communications more vulnerable to exposure, produced a new "lines of flight" for the nexus of power/knowledge. This new system of communication, in turn, created anxieties of class relations at the turn of the century, as the telegraph workers had access to knowledge about the upper-class way of life and their intimate details, which were potentially subversive to the power relations. In James's In the Cage, the female telegraphist, the unnamed, central character of the novella, develops her new literacy to read the private meanings of the telegraphic codes of her upper class clients. Bringing gender and class dimensions to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gauttari's concept of "lines of flight," this article focuses on the telegraphist's material conditions in which the telegraphic lines of flight are embedded. In doing so, this article analyzes how gender, class, and romantic heterosexual love influence the telegraphist's perception of self and society within a telegraphically-mediated female imaginary, and help increase her secret knowledge of upper-class, while her knowledge is simultaneously repressed by the tropes of heterosexual romance and marriage.
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Henry James's novella In the Cage (1898) represents an emergence of new literacy, as a new information technology telegraph became widely used in the late nineteenth century. Telegraph, whose open form made private communications more vulnerable to exposure, produced a new "lines of flight" for the nexus of power/knowledge. This new system of communication, in turn, created anxieties of class relations at the turn of the century, as the telegraph workers had access to knowledge about the upper-class way of life and their intimate details, which were potentially subversive to the power relations. In James's In the Cage, the female telegraphist, the unnamed, central character of the novella, develops her new literacy to read the private meanings of the telegraphic codes of her upper class clients. Bringing gender and class dimensions to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gauttari's concept of "lines of flight," this article focuses on the telegraphist's material conditions in which the telegraphic lines of flight are embedded. In doing so, this article analyzes how gender, class, and romantic heterosexual love influence the telegraphist's perception of self and society within a telegraphically-mediated female imaginary, and help increase her secret knowledge of upper-class, while her knowledge is simultaneously repressed by the tropes of heterosexual romance and marriage.
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