Peeling Back Whiteness: Neurasthenia in Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove

• DOI: 10.26597/mod.0260
• Publication Date: 2023-08-16T15:04:01Z
• Authors: Wenwen Guo
• Keywords: Neurasthenia

It was not Milly’s unpacified state, in short, that now troubled her—though certainly, as Europe the great American sedative, failure to some extent be noted.”[1] With her ardent quest for an identity-granting disease, Milly Theale, heroine Henry James’s 1903 novel The Wings of Dove, embodies ambiguous place women neurasthenic discourse