The Paranoia of Travel: American Tourists in Henry James’s Late Fiction

• DOI: 10.1353/hjr.2020.0006
• Publication Date: 2020-02-09T14:01:29Z
• Authors: Wenwen Guo
• Keywords: 06 humanities and the arts; 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion

Participating in the conversation on relationship between place and identity, this paper examines peculiar characterizations Henry James's late novels. It identifies a tourist paranoid turn of mind cluster touring Americans Europe--Milly Theale (The Wings Dove), Maggie Verver Golden Bowl), Lambert Strether Ambassadors). A heightened need to secure "firm footing" plunges these characters into mode existence, with blind faith knowledge strong suspicion hidden truth.