Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay historicizes and investigates social Darwinism and social eugenics asthey appear in Henry James’s Daisy Miller, using postcolonial theories such as mimicry,imperialistic discourse, and reverse diaspora. Henry James's personal travel writings, whichcontain an element of xenophobic anxiety, are also discussed. In addition, the essay arguesthat Daisy is extracted suddenly from the text on two levels: The first level is located withinthe fictive narration; i.e., she is not socially desirable by the colonialist EuropeanizedAmericans with whom she encounters in Europe. The second level exists within the reality ofHenry James’s fears of the “other” and within the context of the historical time period inwhich the text was written.
Author: Lopp Copland, Rachelann
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7218148604