HUMA 2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Escapism, Gothic Fiction, Outlandish
29 Apr 2016
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Gnostic: henry james and the quest for truth in art, freud"s uncanny, gothicisms and realism. Born into a privileged family in cambridge, massachusetts. Produced interesting children, all of them had tutors. 1835 his father moved them to europe. Time when people felt that there was no distinct american culture, there was a. Returned to america to study law at harvard. After the civil war, he lived out his days in europe. People always assumed that some other place was better than where they were; something in the human mind that romanticizes another place. James" family were affected by upheaval caused by civil war; asked themselves, along with everyone else, who or what are we as a nation . He thinks about collective identity, distances himself from his country to get an objective view. When freudian theory comes to north america, it became medicalized.
