Millicent Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Millicent Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Millicent |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shakespeare's tragic skepticism
"Readers of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare's greatest characters: Why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago's malice? But while many critics have chosen to overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell demonstrates that they are essential elements of Sha…
Epilogue
This book concludes by framing the four great tragedies discussed in the previous chapters. Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra seem to be as separate as Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are from Shakespeare's earlier and later works yet have a special relation to what they enclose, as well as to the plays they fence off. Like the series of English “history plays” that had just culminated in Henry V when Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar,…
The Unmentionable Subject in "The Pupil"
James's great short story, "The Pupil," is, among other things, about something considered nearly unmentionable by the genteel - money. By an extinct code of manners and taste that James examines and turns inside out, refined persons were still, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, not supposed to talk much about money, even though their liberty to avoid its mention depended on its sufficient supply. The monetary sufficiency that silenc…
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Edith Wharton's Inner Circle
Henry James in the Nineties
Dearest Beloved
The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne--for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness--was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, b…
Meaning in Henry James
The Trial of Curiosity
Other| September 01 1991 The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity Ross Posnock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 358 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Millicent Bell Millicent Bell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 352–355. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-52-3-352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Imaging American Women
Female Regional Writing
There exists a special connection between the female writer and the impulse towards local realism that we call regionalism. This essay shows why certain women writers found an expressive opportunity within this mode and how they established a tradition still accessible to the modern female imagination, for what else is regionalism, after all, but a recoil upon marginality
Marquand
Marquand
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry James and John Hay
The Two Lives of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton & Henry James
Hawthorne's View of the Artist
Hawthorne's View of the Artist
Adams' Esther
THE extraordinary sensibility of Henry Adams, with its delicate and powerful response to history, to art, to human personality, would seem to demand expression in the art of fiction. Yet better novels than Esther have been written by men less curious about life and less informed, even by writers with a vastly inferior faculty of style. What Adams lacked, probably, was just the sense of vocation that so completely possessed his friend Henry James.…
Lady into Author
The Fallacy of the Fall in Paradise Lost
The old question: Why did Milton's Adam and Eve disobey the Divine Commandment? continues to provoke conflicting answers and consequently diverse accounts of the meaning of Paradiae Lost. That Milton's epic is, like King Laar , or Faust , or Moby Dick , a work able to sustain many seemingly-contrary interpretations—that in fact it contains them all to some degree—is clear to anyone who will reread the poem at intervals, following the lead first o…
"Hawthorne's "Fire Worship
T HE SKETCH Fire Worship, which Hawthorne contributed to the Democratic Review in December, i843, and then included in Mosses from an Old Manse three years later, has had only one enthusiastic admirer. Was ever the hearth so glorified into an altar before ? challenged Herman Melville, reviewing the Mosses in the Literary World.' It is not at once apparent what caught the attention of this first critic; one is hardly suprised that later commentato…
"Hawthorne's "Fire Worship
T HE SKETCH Fire Worship, which Hawthorne contributed to the Democratic Review in December, i843, and then included in Mosses from an Old Manse three years later, has had only one enthusiastic admirer. Was ever the hearth so glorified into an altar before ? challenged Herman Melville, reviewing the Mosses in the Literary World.' It is not at once apparent what caught the attention of this first critic; one is hardly suprised that later commentato…
The Fallacy of the Fall in Paradise Lost
The old question: Why did Milton's Adam and Eve disobey the Divine Commandment? continues to provoke conflicting answers and consequently diverse accounts of the meaning of Paradiae Lost. That Milton's epic is, like King Laar , or Faust , or Moby Dick , a work able to sustain many seemingly-contrary interpretations—that in fact it contains them all to some degree—is clear to anyone who will reread the poem at intervals, following the lead first o…
Lady into Author
Adams' Esther
THE extraordinary sensibility of Henry Adams, with its delicate and powerful response to history, to art, to human personality, would seem to demand expression in the art of fiction. Yet better novels than Esther have been written by men less curious about life and less informed, even by writers with a vastly inferior faculty of style. What Adams lacked, probably, was just the sense of vocation that so completely possessed his friend Henry James.…
Hawthorne's View of the Artist
Hawthorne's View of the Artist
Henry James and John Hay
The Two Lives of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton & Henry James
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Marquand
Marquand
Female Regional Writing
There exists a special connection between the female writer and the impulse towards local realism that we call regionalism. This essay shows why certain women writers found an expressive opportunity within this mode and how they established a tradition still accessible to the modern female imagination, for what else is regionalism, after all, but a recoil upon marginality
Imaging American Women
The Trial of Curiosity
Other| September 01 1991 The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity Ross Posnock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 358 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Millicent Bell Millicent Bell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 352–355. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-52-3-352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Meaning in Henry James
Henry James in the Nineties
Dearest Beloved
The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne--for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness--was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, b…
Edith Wharton's Inner Circle
The Unmentionable Subject in "The Pupil"
James's great short story, "The Pupil," is, among other things, about something considered nearly unmentionable by the genteel - money. By an extinct code of manners and taste that James examines and turns inside out, refined persons were still, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, not supposed to talk much about money, even though their liberty to avoid its mention depended on its sufficient supply. The monetary sufficiency that silenc…
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Shakespeare's tragic skepticism
"Readers of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare's greatest characters: Why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago's malice? But while many critics have chosen to overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell demonstrates that they are essential elements of Sha…
Epilogue
This book concludes by framing the four great tragedies discussed in the previous chapters. Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra seem to be as separate as Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are from Shakespeare's earlier and later works yet have a special relation to what they enclose, as well as to the plays they fence off. Like the series of English “history plays” that had just culminated in Henry V when Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar,…
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