Winterbourne’s Study and Daisy’s Play in Henry James’s Daisy Miller: A Study
2
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This essay explores how Henry James’s Daisy Miller dramatizes the tension between Winterbourne (studying Daisy to place her in the proper social category) and Daisy (evading Winterbourne’s spying eye to celebrate her sexuality). The narrative starts with Winterbourne’s determination to learn more about “foreign” Daisy to put her into the oppositional category of a good and bad “girl.” However, in the story, Daisy hybridizes her identity by standing in between the oppositional category. The ambiguity of Daisy’s behaviors produces “classificatory confusion” and, for that matter, Winterbourne continue to fail in finding the right formula that can successfully apply to Daisy. Importantly, in the moment Winterbourne thought that he found the right formula that applies to Daisy, Daisy once more escapes from Winterbourne’s definition by disappearing into death. The story ends with Winterbourne’s self-reflective statement that he has been too dependent on conventional values to explain the new womanhood that Daisy expresses. Consequently, it is not Daisy but Winterbourne who is troubled by the “audacious” and resistant gestures Daisy made and learns a lesson in the end of the story. Thus, Daisy Miller starts with a story of Daisy who goes beyond convention and conformity but ends up to be a story of Winterbourne who fails to place Daisy in the social category because he too heavily depended on convention and conformity.
Abstract
This essay explores how Henry James’s Daisy Miller dramatizes the tension between Winterbourne (studying Daisy to place her in the proper social category) and Daisy (evading Winterbourne’s spying eye to celebrate her sexuality). The narrative starts with Winterbourne’s determination to learn more about “foreign” Daisy to put her into the oppositional category of a good and bad “girl.” However, in the story, Daisy hybridizes her identity by standing in between the oppositional category. The ambiguity of Daisy’s behaviors produces “classificatory confusion” and, for that matter, Winterbourne continue to fail in finding the right formula that can successfully apply to Daisy. Importantly, in the moment Winterbourne thought that he found the right formula that applies to Daisy, Daisy once more escapes from Winterbourne’s definition by disappearing into death. The story ends with Winterbourne’s self-reflective statement that he has been too dependent on conventional values to explain the new womanhood that Daisy expresses. Consequently, it is not Daisy but Winterbourne who is troubled by the “audacious” and resistant gestures Daisy made and learns a lesson in the end of the story. Thus, Daisy Miller starts with a story of Daisy who goes beyond convention and conformity but ends up to be a story of Winterbourne who fails to place Daisy in the social category because he too heavily depended on convention and conformity.
참고문헌 (18)
- Ammons, A. R, "A Poem Is Like a Walk, In Claims for Poetry" (1982), U of Michigan P
- Bhabha K.Homi, "The Location of Culture" (1994), Routledge
- Barnett, Louise K, "Jamesian Feminism: Women in Daisy Miller", Studies in Short Fiction, 16, pp.281~287 (1979)
- Butler,Judith, "Gender Trouble" (1999), Routledge
- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, "Introduction: The Spectacle of the Female Head, In Off with Her Head! The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture", pp.1~13 (1995), U of California P
- Grant, William E, "‘DAISY MILLER’: A STUDY OF A STUDY", Studies in Short Fiction, 11(1), pp.17~25 (1974)
- Foucault, Michel, "The History of Sexuality" (1990), Vintage
- James, Henry, "Daisy Miller: A Study, In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 3rd Shorter" (1989), Norton
- Johnson, Lisa, "Daisy Miller: Cowboy Feminist", The Henry James Review, 22, pp.41~58 (2001)
- Kirk, Cary H, "‘Daisy Miller’: The Reader’s Choice", Studies in Short Fiction, 17(3), pp.275~283 (1980)
- Pahl, Dennis, "‘Going Down’ with Henry James’s Uptwon Girl: Genteel Anxiety and the Promiscuous World of Daisy Miller", Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 12(2), pp.129~164 (2001)
- Page, Phillip, "Daisy Miller’s Parasol", Studies in Short Fiction, 27(4), pp.591~601 (1990)
- Ryan, Mary P, "Women in Public:Between Banners and Ballots,1825-1880" (1984), Johns Hopkins UP
- Said,Edward, "Orientalism" (1979), Vintage
- Schriber, Mary Suzanne, "Toward Daisy Miller: Cooper’s Idea of “The American Girl", Studies in the Novel, 13, pp.237~249 (1981)
- Turner, Terence S, "The Social Skin, In Reading the Social Body" (1993), U of Iowa Press
- Wagenknecht,Edward, "Eve and Henry James: Portraits of Women and Girls in His Fiction" (1978), U of Oklahoma P
- Welter,Barbara, "Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Athens" (1976), Ohio UP