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Inauspicious Flames: A Feng-Shui Reading of The Spoils of Poynton
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 4, December 2017
- pp. 157-174
- 10.1353/mos.2017.0058
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay argues that Henry James may have been aware of the tenets of feng shui—the ancient Chinese belief that location and environment affect inner peace—while both conceiving and composing The Spoils of Poynton.