"A sort of meaning": Handling the Name and Figuring Genealogy in The Wings of the Dove

Warren, Jonathan

doi:10.1353/hjr.2002.0015

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Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies

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Branding Milly Theale: The Capital Case of The Wings of the Dove

Martin¹

2003

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This article offers a materialist interpretation of James's 1902 novel, in which Milly Theale's iconographic association with capital underpins a thoroughgoing critique of class relations at the beginning of the twentieth-century. Milly's aggrandizement of her material power into a culturally transcendent hegemonic force is dialectically opposed by Kate Croy's own more class-conscious understanding of her social circumstances. Through her purchase of the cultural goods of Venice, Milly brands herself with the image of the dove, an image masking the ultimately coercive power she exercises over others.

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Pathological Commodification, Contagious Impressions, and Dead Metaphors: Undiagnosing Consumption in The Wings of the Dove

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2013

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Wings insists on representing Milly Theale's condition as a matter of cognitive reticence, yet refracts it through a twinned rhetoric of disease and economics, illuminating a coextensivity between pathology and commodification. Effectively, Kate Croy's undiagnosis of the consumptive verdict invites a broader consideration of consumption's mutating tropes, which figure appetitive relations as well as the assimilation of contagious impressions. If Milly does not definitively have consumption, she is nevertheless subjected to it. Her pecuniary ontology predisposes her to being used (up); however, as a figure for dead metaphor, she also exceeds death, and moreover, allegorizes the death of the overdetermined consumptive heroine.

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"A sort of meaning": Handling the Name and Figuring Genealogy in The Wings of the Dove

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Mastering Critical Theory

Mastering Critical Theory

Branding Milly Theale: The Capital Case of The Wings of the Dove

Pathological Commodification, Contagious Impressions, and Dead Metaphors: Undiagnosing Consumption in The Wings of the Dove

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