{"title":"What Miss Grief Knew","authors":"S. Teahan","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay considers Constance Fenimore Woolson's \"Miss Grief,\" Hawthorne's \"The Birth-mark,\" James's The Beast in the Jungle, his 1880 essay on Woolson, and Elizabeth Maguire's The Open Door against the backdrop of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory of the paranoid gothic, a quasi-supernatural dynamic in which a male protagonist fears manipulation by an Other to whom his unconsciousness appears transparent. Through close reading of key figures, notably catachresis, I analyze the intertextual connections among these constellated texts and examine their allegorizing of the operation of tropology in relation to the paranoid gothic.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0008","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arizona Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay considers Constance Fenimore Woolson's "Miss Grief," Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark," James's The Beast in the Jungle, his 1880 essay on Woolson, and Elizabeth Maguire's The Open Door against the backdrop of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory of the paranoid gothic, a quasi-supernatural dynamic in which a male protagonist fears manipulation by an Other to whom his unconsciousness appears transparent. Through close reading of key figures, notably catachresis, I analyze the intertextual connections among these constellated texts and examine their allegorizing of the operation of tropology in relation to the paranoid gothic.
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Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.
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