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Exordium | 1
Part I: Potentiality and Gesture
1 Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James’s New York Edition Prefaces | 23
2 “First Love”: Gesture and the Emergence of Desire in Eudora Welty | 50
Part II: Novels and the Beginnings of Character
3 Robinson Crusoe and the Inception of Speech | 73
4 The Clock Finger at Nought: Daniel Deronda and the Positing of Perspective | 91
5 Proto-Reading and the Positing of Character in Our Mutual Friend | 103
Part III: Our Stony Ancestry
6 Ovid and Orpheus | 127
7 Wallace Stevens and the Temporalities of Inception and Embodiment | 148
Part IV: Solitude and Queer Origins
8 “Epitaph, the Idiom of Man”: Imaginings of the Beginning | 177
9 Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience | 199
Acknowledgments | 223
Notes | 227
Index | 283

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    Publisher: Fordham University Press
    Publication Date: 06/04/2021
    ISBN13: 9780823294626, 978-0823294626
    ISBN10: 0823294625

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents

    Exordium | 1
    Part I: Potentiality and Gesture
    1 Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James’s New York Edition Prefaces | 23
    2 “First Love”: Gesture and the Emergence of Desire in Eudora Welty | 50
    Part II: Novels and the Beginnings of Character
    3 Robinson Crusoe and the Inception of Speech | 73
    4 The Clock Finger at Nought: Daniel Deronda and the Positing of Perspective | 91
    5 Proto-Reading and the Positing of Character in Our Mutual Friend | 103
    Part III: Our Stony Ancestry
    6 Ovid and Orpheus | 127
    7 Wallace Stevens and the Temporalities of Inception and Embodiment | 148
    Part IV: Solitude and Queer Origins
    8 “Epitaph, the Idiom of Man”: Imaginings of the Beginning | 177
    9 Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience | 199
    Acknowledgments | 223
    Notes | 227
    Index | 283

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