..., James's portrait of a “man of imagination” whose education consists in imagining the experiences of others is not a deviation from the tradition of the bildungsroman but a realization of one of the genre's originary possibilities. The Ambassadors (1903) is often read as a narrative of education...

.... In The Ambassadors , this withdrawal responds to the inherent maximalism of the novel's primary antagonist, advertising. The Ambassadors reveals advertising as a form of representation uninterested in the material object. Against advertising's abstraction, the novel uses opaque, empty style to keep its surface...

... and anxious concern that Japanese ambassadors of culture not be offended. The crucial intervention was made by G. K. Chesterton, who argued that the opera did not contain “a single joke against Japan” in a moment of just such panic: the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the opera for the duration of Prince...

... identifies as the “black shadows looming only at the very edges of James' pictures” ( 35 ). Matthiessen speaks of these shadows in reference to James's 1903 novel The Ambassadors , which focalizes the narrative action through the consciousness of the wealthy protagonist, Lambert Strether. The shadows...

... with conquest and dominion; maps are not just navigational tools but also mirrors in which nations regard themselves, confirm and ratify their presumed status in the world. That's why the cartographic paraphernalia in his Ambassadors —globes, a torquetum, a quadrant—serve as props for the two statesmen, whose...

... Essays on Henry James: The Early Novels . Ed. Gargano J. W. . Boston : Hall , 1987 . 136 – 44 . Holland Laurence Bedwell . The Expense of Vision: Essays on the Craft of Henry James . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1964 . James Henry . The Ambassadors . Ed. Levin Harry...

... with national matters. This continued focus on the nation has had difficult repercussions for Markandaya, who metamorphosed in her fiction and in her presentation of herself as a writer from the role of an “Indian literary ambassador to the world” to that of an Indian expatriate as “European...

..., Alexander's Bridge ( 1912 ), her later work continues to testify to the impact of James's effort to make fiction explore the peculiar challenges in simultaneously representing the world as is and the world as experienced . In his preface to The Ambassadors , for example, James focuses on “disguised...

.... Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan Berkeley: California UP, 1995 . 1 –26. James , Henry . The Ambassadors . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973 . James , Henry . The American Scene . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994 . James , Henry . The Awkward Age . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987...

...), Eliot and Bergson (chapter 4). Vitalist psychology in this book is thus not mapped onto literature; rather, literary texts are used to reflect on new principles of psychology. Chapter 2 offers illuminating diagnostic readings of Henry James's The Ambassadors , The Wings of the Dove...

... P , 1992 . Von Eschen Penny . Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2004 . Wright Richard . Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos . New York : Harper , 1954 . “Every Guy Has His Own Africa...

... without injury to the scale of production in other spheres. Over-population supplies these masses” ( 694 ). 7 Wendy Brown agrees: “[W]hen everything is capital, labor disappears as a category, as does its collective form, class” ( 38 ). 8 I refer, of course, to The Ambassadors...

... and consuls. Ministers performed the functions that are now performed by ambassadors, while the functions of the consul have 286 novel | summer 2009 changed significantly over time. Consuls have always been responsible for helping US travelers who run into trouble abroad, and they are now...

... of Stephen Greenblatt’s well-known reading of the anamorphic death’s head in Holbein’s The Ambassadors, from Renaissance Self-Fashioning [17–23 Could the intersection of the two incommensurable perspectives, those associated with nineteenth- and with twentieth-century anthropology, account...

... grisette . Paris: Aubert, 1841 . James , Henry . The Ambassadors . 1903. Ed. S.P. Rosenbaum New York: Norton, 1964 . Jarry , Paul , Étudiants et grisettes romantiques . Paris: Le Goupy, 1927 . La Fontaine , Jean de . “Joconde.” Contes et nouvelles en vers . 4 vols...

... or friendship networks and acquainted with more and more barriers that separate the understanding of one group from another, barriers sometimes domesticated as “cultural differences.” The role of fiction is then twice over ambassadorial: first, an ambassador of the complexity of a human life and, second...

... phrases such as “he was to remember” (referring to Strether in The Ambassadors ), he “was to measure after” (Densher in Wings of the Dove ), and “she was to remember afterwards” (Maggie in The Golden Bowl ) ( “Remembrance” 231–32 ). Such phrases indicate an “anticipated recollection” (232). According...

... of knowledge, Moretti here makes the startling claim that we should take “the style of the dime novels as the basic object of study and [explain] James’s [Ambassadors] as an unlikely by-product”—because, as he puts it, “that’s how history has proceeded.” To follow this injunction, one has to overturn...

... anxiety about the social pressures beyond her front door or even about those that invade her home. Miss Flite is just one of a number of ambassadors of elsewhere in Dickens's novels, characters who may be marginal within the context of plot or story structure but who vibrantly represent adjacent societies...

... . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997 . Von Eschen , Penny . Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004 . The Radical Imaginary of The Bell Jar KATE A. BALDWIN A competent critic can do a good deal even...