Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels

Wibke Schniedermann is a postdoctoral researcher at Giessen University, Germany. She received a PhD from Frankfurt University, Germany, and has published on Henry James, poverty and homelessness in U.S. culture, surveillance cultures, and the depiction of class issues in serial television. Her research focuses on narrative representation of space, affect, and inequality.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Symbolic Punishment and Social Death in Daisy Miller: A Study.- 3. The Presence of Absence in The Portrait of a Lady.- 4. The Grip of Inheritance: Capital Resources in The Wings of the Dove.- 5. How to Survive One’s Inheritance in The Golden Bowl.- 6. Epilogue: James’s “Culture Vultures”.

“Each of these monographs hones in on a single author, Henry James and Elizabeth Gaskell, respectively. Emphasizing how gender enactments differ from one text to another even when constructed by the same authorial hand, this choice allows these monographs to highlight the multiplicities of and cultural dependences of gender, a task in which they are deeply invested.” (Bianca Perez-Cancino, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (3), 2023)