Screwing With Children in Henry James

Hanson, Ellis

doi:10.1215/10642684-9-3-367

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“…The figure of the pedophile has been explored from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, and scholars such as Murphy (2009), Ingebretsen (2004 and Hanson (2003) demonstrate clear links between the figure of the pedophile and the gothic. Meyer (2010) examines the ways in which pedophiles are "linguistically produced as evil through lexical items that directly associate them with the realm of the satanic" in newspaper coverage of child sexual abuse narratives, and in this novel Hartnett's subtle, paradoxical figure of the pedophile challenges common representations of the pedophile via "the "dirty old man" stereotype" (Schober 134).…”

Section: The Pied Piper: Class Nostalgia and Renovationmentioning

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“Impossible to Keep”: Home Renovation and the Australian Suburban Gothic in Sonya Hartnett’sGolden Boys

Jeffery

2020

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

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Australia is in the grip of an obsession with renovation. In contemporary popular culture renovation television programs, books and new media platforms have become "a social phenomenon, one that is both expressive and constructive of social relations" (McElroy 87). This essay argues that Sonya Hartnett uses the suburban gothic to subvert conventional representations of renovation that appear in popular culture, which uncritically present renovation as a practice "oriented towards upward mobility through the complete and often radical transformation of bodies, homes and lifestyles" (Lewis and Martin 322). The figure of the renovator in Sonya Hartnett's Golden Boys (2014) is a pedophile, "that most feared and hated of suburban bogeymen" (Murphy 151), whose renovations are designed to draw neighborhood children into his home.One dominant Gothic trope is the decaying castle, manor and, later, suburban house, that threatens to exceed its boundaries (Botting 113). In the novel, renovation is a gothic practice that, while attempting to renew and refresh the Jenson home, sets in motion its inevitable destruction through revealing Rex Jenson's pedophilia. I contend that Hartnett's suburban gothic subverts the aspirational appeal of contemporary fascinations with renovation, and situates the renovated house as a significant contemporary gothic site.

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Section: The Pied Piper: Class Nostalgia and Renovationmentioning

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“Impossible to Keep”: Home Renovation and the Australian Suburban Gothic in Sonya Hartnett’sGolden Boys

Jeffery

2020

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

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“…Oppilastaan himoitsevana opettajana Edward saa aseman kulttuurisia pelkoja ruumiillistavana sinthomoseksuaalina, seksuaalisena olentona, joka vaanii huostaansa annettuja "viattomia lapsia" valmiina turmelemaan nämä (ks. Hanson 2003;Savoy 2004;Hekanaho 2007).…”

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“…Tästäkin syystä juuri sodomiitin hahmolle on annettu usein rooli paniikin lietsojana ja alkuperänä myös The Turning of the Screw -pienoisromaanin tulkinnoissa. (Hanson 2003;Savoy 2004, 248-249, 251;Haggerty 1989, 139-168;Haggerty 2006, 131-150. ) Vastaavasti The Folding Starissa Luc on erotettu jesuiittojen pitämästä Pyhän Narkissoksen poikakoulusta.…”

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Hekanaho¹

2010

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“…6-7) interpretation of the Governess as an unreliable narrator is still often used. Ellis Hanson (2003) in particular, proposes that this unreliability pushes the reader to consider the children's sexuality (p. 371). The unknowability of the events that have and are transpiring is also central in John Tibbetts's (2002) analysis of Bly in both novella and film form as a place "terrorized by haunters and haunted alike" (p. 144).…”

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“…And most recently, Fiona Young and Cleveland (2022) have conducted a study on creating learning environments using affordance theory. 5 Ellis Hanson (2003) provides this summary: "The novella presents us with James's account of the narrator's account of Douglas's account of the governess's account of the ghosts" (p. 370).…”

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Place, Space, and the Affordances Thereof: Bly Manor as Depicted in Three Adaptations of The Turn of the Screw

Ekroll

2023

Humanities

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This paper looks at the representation of Bly Manor across different adaptations of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898). The focus is on adaptations that emphasize Bly as an intricate space that limits the possibilities of actions that the main characters have. The theory of affordance states that places “afford” different uses of the space. Locked inside a place with uneasily determined affordances and clearly established rules, the main characters of these adaptations experience how different intersections of identities are afforded differently within the stately home. The paper traces the intertextual conversation through adaptations such as Jack Clayton’s film The Innocents (1961), the readaptation of James’s premise in Ruth Ware’s novel The Turn of the Key (2019), before ending with the intertextual and temporal dimensions of haunted space in Mike Flanagan’s streaming miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020). These iterations of the story showcase the voyeuristic elements of Bly as the characters are repeatedly watched by those who have come before them. At the same time, they show the ongoing appeal of James’s story as its legacy continues into the twenty-first century.

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Screwing With Children in Henry James

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

“Impossible to Keep”: Home Renovation and the Australian Suburban Gothic in Sonya Hartnett’sGolden Boys

“Impossible to Keep”: Home Renovation and the Australian Suburban Gothic in Sonya Hartnett’sGolden Boys

Mies joka eksyy aina

Place, Space, and the Affordances Thereof: Bly Manor as Depicted in Three Adaptations of The Turn of the Screw

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