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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: Publication Date: 06/04/2021
      ISBN13: 9780823294626, 978-0823294626
      ISBN10: 0823294625
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      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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