The Jolly Corner | Essays and Criticism
- World View, World Void: Brydon
at His Window in The Jolly Corner
In the following essay, Johnson explores the function of windows in ‘‘The Jolly Corner.’’
- James' Great Love Story
While examining James’s use of the idea of divided identity in ‘‘The Jolly Corner,’’ Hardy also affirms the piece as ‘‘James’s great love-story’’ in the following essay.
- Doing Good by Stealth: Alice
Staverton and Women’s Politics in The Jolly Corner
In his historicist reading of ‘‘The Jolly Corner,’’ Reising sees the story ‘‘not as a mirror of a stable and coherent moment in history but as a text that represents, through its own flux and contradictions, an arena of social and cultural change.’’
- Henry James’s The Jolly Corner: The
Writer’s Fable and the Deeper Matter
In the following essay, Bier shows how Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe provided a model and an ‘‘anti-model,’’ respectively, for ‘‘The Jolly Corner.’’
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