2004-2005 Fellows
Christine McBride
Stanford University
Department of English
Christine McBride is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Stanford. She is currently at work on a dissertation which theorizes disavowal in narrative, through the lens of Henry James's "romantic" tales and impressionist novels. Her fields of interest include narrative theory, modernism, Victorian fiction and modern American poetry.
Project Summary
The prospect of material and epistemological "possession" propels the story-line in a majority of Henry James's narratives from the middle and late phases (1888-1903), yet James's work remains divided, formally, between offering a sober critique of the acquisitive impulse and a vicarious indulgence of that impulse. "From Story to Style" argues that, in James's "romantic" and impressionist fictions of this period, the axiological and ontological instability which accords to possession reflects James's own artistic struggle to disavow the novel's complicity with bourgeois consumption.
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The Humanities Center’s fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from the following individuals, foundations and divisions within Stanford: The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Marta Sutton Weeks, The Mericos Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, as well as from Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education.