"How Changeable Are the Events of War": National Reconciliation in the Century Magazine's "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War"

When The Bostonians appeared in the Century in thirteen installments (February 1885-February 1886) it stirred little interest. The silence was “deathly,” James wrote. Restoring The Bostonians to its initial publication context enables us to reconstruct reading strategies and cultural preoccupations that explain the negative reception of the novel. With the “romance of reunion” thriving in the mid-1880s, public discourse avoided the prospect of intractable sectional division. Yet acrimonious sectional feeling pervades The Bostonians , particularly the portrait of Basil. James’s representation of gender, slavery, war, and national reconciliation challenged conventions of discourse for controversial issues that post-Reconstruction readers preferred to avoid.

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Revisiting the Circus with Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Pleasure and Mine

Hochman¹

2018

Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Am.

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With the exception of occasional quiet moments on the raft, the circus scene in the adventures of huckleberry finn is arguably the only episode of the novel where Huck is absorbed by an experience that gives him pleasure: I went to the circus. … It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever was, when they all come riding in two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs, easy and comfortable—there must a' been twenty of them— and every lady with a lovely complexion, and perfectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens. … It was a powerful fine sight. I never see anything so lovely. … (Twain 134–35)

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"How Changeable Are the Events of War": National Reconciliation in the Century Magazine's "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War"

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Reading Historically/Reading Selectively: The Bostonians in the Century , 1885–1886

Revisiting the Circus with Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Pleasure and Mine

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