Critical Essays On Daisy Miller
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Houghton, Donald E. "Attitude and Illness in James' 'Daisy Miller'." Literature and Psychology19.1 (1969): 51-60. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Nancy G. Dziedzic. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Apr. 2013.
Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1420025344&v=2.1&u=wash89460&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Title: Attitude and Illness in James' 'Daisy Miller'
Author(s): Donald E. Houghton
Publication Details: Literature and Psychology 19.1 (1969): p51-60.
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Nancy G. Dziedzic. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. From Literature Resource Center.
Document Type: Critical essay
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[(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Houghton explores the role of illness in James's novella, maintaining that many Americans visiting Europe become ill in the story "not so much because of any objective circumstances in the new environment but as a result of attitudes the Americans take toward that environment."]
Oscar Cargill's definition of James' "international novel" indicates how close James came in so many of his novels to presenting the psycho-physical experience we now refer to as culture shock. "If Turgenev had originated 'the international novel,' James was to perfect and more sharply define it. An 'international novel' is not simply a story of people living abroad, as in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, but it is a story of persons taken out of the familiar contexts of their own mores where their action is habitual and placed in an element, as in a biological experiment, where everything is unfamiliar, so that their individual responses can be examined" [found in the introduction to the 1956 edition of Daisy Miller]. Cargill, of course, is using the term "biological experiment" metaphorically, but in fact the experience of
Houghton, Donald E. "Attitude and Illness in James' 'Daisy Miller'." Literature and Psychology19.1 (1969): 51-60. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Nancy G. Dziedzic. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Apr. 2013.
Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1420025344&v=2.1&u=wash89460&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Title: Attitude and Illness in James' 'Daisy Miller'
Author(s): Donald E. Houghton
Publication Details: Literature and Psychology 19.1 (1969): p51-60.
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Nancy G. Dziedzic. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. From Literature Resource Center.
Document Type: Critical essay
[Image Omitted: Gale]
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1996 Gale Research, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale, Cengage Learning
Full Text:
[(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Houghton explores the role of illness in James's novella, maintaining that many Americans visiting Europe become ill in the story "not so much because of any objective circumstances in the new environment but as a result of attitudes the Americans take toward that environment."]
Oscar Cargill's definition of James' "international novel" indicates how close James came in so many of his novels to presenting the psycho-physical experience we now refer to as culture shock. "If Turgenev had originated 'the international novel,' James was to perfect and more sharply define it. An 'international novel' is not simply a story of people living abroad, as in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, but it is a story of persons taken out of the familiar contexts of their own mores where their action is habitual and placed in an element, as in a biological experiment, where everything is unfamiliar, so that their individual responses can be examined" [found in the introduction to the 1956 edition of Daisy Miller]. Cargill, of course, is using the term "biological experiment" metaphorically, but in fact the experience of