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The Queerness of William James
- The Henry James Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2022
- pp. 41-65
- 10.1353/hjr.2022.0002
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Abstract:
Generations of scholars have posited that Henry and William James are exact opposites of one another: the latter as the virile ideal of his effeminate younger brother. This essay joins a growing body of scholarship in challenging these lingering binaries. Through an examination of their childhoods, private relationships, Henry's published writing, William's canonical scholarly texts, their correspondence, and a host of other sources, a deeper sense of queer commonalities between these brothers comes into focus.