Tautological Crimes: Why Women Can’t Steal Jewels

Briefel, Aviva

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“…Ratner’s beleaguered wife Dinah plays the role of the shrew, acting as an impediment along her estranged husband’s journey. Julia, Ratner’s younger girlfriend, is objectified throughout as a fantasy figure, taking on similar properties as the opal when Ratner refers to her as “Jules,” thus making her own ownership of gems, in Aviva Briefel’s terms, tautological (135). She briefly obstructs Ratner’s pursuit of the opal during the cocaine‐fueled nightclub rendezvous, which further expresses her initial depiction as an Orientalized temptress, lying prostrate on a bed like an opium user (00:09:32).…”

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This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story

Tarr¹

2022

The J of Popular Culture

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This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story

Tarr¹

2022

The J of Popular Culture

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Dandyism, Visuality and the ‘Camp Gem’: Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde

Mills¹

2010

Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures

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Queer Properties: Passion and Possession in The Spoils of Poynton

O'Toole¹

2012

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Often identified as the first work of James's celebrated late style, The Spoils of Poynton (1897) has been widely read as a "perversion" of the conventions of the realist novel; indeed, it is marked by a to describe the objects that James declared formed "the very centre" of it. This structuring absence mobilizes an atmosphere of a sexual secret in the novel, yet the eroticism that James associates with the objects and interiors that bring the novel's two arty women together has not been fully examined. In the context of James's passionate correspondence with the sculptor Hendrik Andersen and the late-nineteenth-century nexus of aestheticism and homoeroticism, the novel's exploration of possession and possessions is, this essay argues, inextricably bound up with James's attempt to represent the subject of same-sex desire in the wake of the Wilde scandal and on the cusp of James's belated friendships with gay men.

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Tautological Crimes: Why Women Can’t Steal Jewels

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story

This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story

Dandyism, Visuality and the ‘Camp Gem’: Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde

Queer Properties: Passion and Possession in The Spoils of Poynton

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