Experience at home and innocence abroad: social and cultural capital in Machado de Assis's Esaú e Jacó and Henry James's the ambassadors

Beyer, Bethany

doi:10.1590/s1983-68212014000100007

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“…She contributes to his ability to see Europe from the perspective of an insider. Beyer (2014) evaluates this cooperation between Strether and Maria as a "social capital" that Strether gains and uses to take distance in forming his own self. (p. 91) Besides Gostrey, Marie de Vionnet helps Strether question and reform his identity:…”

Section: James's Voyeur and His Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides, Chad's mother has no intention of making concessions about her commercial stand. As Beyer (2014) She both desires her family business to be maintained and their religious character to be protected against the wiles of Europe, especially Paris. Mrs Newsome, who believes that her son is attached to a wicked woman, Madame de Vionnet, in Paris, gives Strether instructions about how to perform his responsibility.…”

Section: New World Versus Old Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Arada olmanın keyfi: Henry James’in The Ambassadors (Elçiler) eseri

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2019

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With his numerous works, the well-known prolific American expatriate novelist and essayist, Henry James considerably contributed to enriching our perception of the transition process in the USA to modernism as an author witnessing both late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After experiencing a long period of puritanical order and remaining stuck in the strictly established moral rules, American New England society was breaking its earlier conservative crust with the advent of the new century. James shed light on this transition process with many of his works such as The Ambassadors, Bostonians and Transatlantic Sketches. In this study, The Ambassadors, which can be seen as the projection of James's European experiences, is scrutinized with respect to the comparative representations of Paris and Woollett, and in a bigger scope, Europe and America. Spending most of his time by commuting between the Old and New World, James provided his readers with unique perspectives about these places in hereby-handled fiction through the eye of his protagonist, Strether. Drawing on the distinctions made between Woollett and Paris, this article examines how James reconstructs modern American identity hinging upon the two sides of Atlantic.

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Section: James's Voyeur and His Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: New World Versus Old Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%