Henry James's Perpetual Mediation.
Starting with a reading of James's lesser-known tale "The Special Type" (1900), this essay explores how James sustains and inhabits "types" as recognizable objects for readers to think and feel against. The construction of types in James's fiction provides a dialectical mechanism of making abstracti...
| Published in: | Henry James Review Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 104 - 121 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Winter2026
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