"The Little Hour of Violence": Domesticity and Desire in James's The Other House

This essay considers The Other House in relation to James’s theorizations of the “scenic art.” The emphasis on space in these texts highlights an attempt to “map” social and ethnic categories onto narrative and dramatic form. The Other House is a novel about a particular space: the territory between two country estates. This essay argues that the novel maps that territory in order to allegorize a racialized theory of Anglo-Saxon performance.

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"The Little Hour of Violence": Domesticity and Desire in James's The Other House

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