Elaine Pigeon obtained her PhD in English Studies in 2003 at the Université de Montréal where she currently teaches. Last year she lectured on Modernism at Concordia University, Montréal. She has had several chapters published in various books, including tow on James: Narring the Father, Lexington Books, 2000, and DepictingDesire, 2004.
Introduction: Engendering Mastery 1Chapter 1 Emerson's Blind Spot: Romantic
Effects in The Portrait of a Lady 24It's just like a novel! 32Haunting
Father Figures 38Henry James Sr. & Minny Temple 45Italy & Hawthorne
57James's Gothic Effects 64Cousin Ralph's Queer Tutelage 69Chapter 2
James's Art of Fiction: A Queer Blend of Aestheticism, Naturalism &
Impressionism 80The Black Beltraffio 88Traces of James Sr. 95Art for Art's
Sake 100The French Connection 104The French Impressionist Movement 111James
& the Second Impressionist Exhibition 117Edmond Duranty's La Nouvelle
Peinture 120A Queer Impression 130Chapter 3 The Legacy of the Unspeakable
Father in The Wings of the Dove 151The Unspeakable Lionel Croy 157What has
he done, if no one can name it? 169John Addington Symonds's Queer Stance
174The Author of Beltraffio Revisited 187A Queer Blend of Nature & Nurture
193Confessing the Self 203Speaking Out of the Double Bind 209Conclusion
223Works Cited 226
