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@article{ART003053966},
author={BILLIE PRITCHETT},
title={Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square},
journal={인문논총 },
issn={2005-6222},
year={2024},
volume={63},
pages={235-259},
doi={10.33638/JHS.63.10}

TY - JOUR
AU - BILLIE PRITCHETT
TI - Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square
JO - 인문논총
PY - 2024
VL - 63
IS - null
PB - Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
SP - 235
EP - 259
SN - 2005-6222
AB - Using a Foucauldian-Lacanian framework, this paper examines how the father figure in Henry James’s Washington Square ([1880] 1881) deploys nineteenth-century legal and medical discursive formations to justify patriarchal authority. The father figure, American physician Doctor Austin Sloper, bars his daughter Catherine’s marriage to suitor Morris Townsend, claiming both patriarchal right and privileged diagnostic knowledge about human personality. This essay argues that Sloper’s circumscription of his daughter’s freedom and judgments about personality result from a system of rationalization based on popular discursive formations derived from the burgeoning urban landscape of nineteenth-century America, and that these discourses permit Sloper as scientist and patriarch to justify his prejudices and extend power over his daughter as the subject supposed to know.
KW - authority;discipline;discourse;gaze;ideology;patriarchy;power;subject supposed to know
DO - 10.33638/JHS.63.10
ER -

BILLIE PRITCHETT. (2024). Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square. 인문논총 , 63, 235-259.

BILLIE PRITCHETT. 2024, "Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square", 인문논총 , vol.63, pp.235-259. Available from: doi:10.33638/JHS.63.10

BILLIE PRITCHETT "Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square" 인문논총 63 pp.235-259 (2024) : 235.

BILLIE PRITCHETT. Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square. 2024; 63 235-259. Available from: doi:10.33638/JHS.63.10

BILLIE PRITCHETT. "Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square" 인문논총 63(2024) : 235-259.doi: 10.33638/JHS.63.10

BILLIE PRITCHETT. Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square. 인문논총 , 63, 235-259. doi: 10.33638/JHS.63.10

BILLIE PRITCHETT. Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square. 인문논총 . 2024; 63 235-259. doi: 10.33638/JHS.63.10

BILLIE PRITCHETT. Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square. 2024; 63 235-259. Available from: doi:10.33638/JHS.63.10

BILLIE PRITCHETT. "Discursive Formations and Authority in Henry James’s Washington Square" 인문논총 63(2024) : 235-259.doi: 10.33638/JHS.63.10