Performing the Everyday in the Works of Henry James, Jane Austen, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

我认为，亨利·詹姆斯的小说--以及简·奥斯汀和伊迪丝·沃顿等其他作家--反映了生活的虚构和建构品质。继续使用二十世纪微社会学家欧文·高夫曼的理论作为文学分析的工具，我扩展和超越了我在专著《在亨利·詹姆斯的晚期小说中表现日常》(阿什盖特，2009年)中的主张，专注于理解传统和非传统意义上的亲密现象。

I contend that the fiction of Henry James-among other authors such as Jane Austen and Edith Wharton-reflect life's fictional, constructed quality. Continuing to employ the theories of twentieth century microsociologist Erving Goffman as a tool of literary analysis, I expand and move beyond the claims I made in my monograph, Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels (Ashgate 2009), to focus on understanding the phenomena of "intimacy" in both the conventional and unconventional senses of the word.