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Journal Article
Helen Keller, Henry James, and the Social Relations of Perception
2006
Overview
To be sure, there may seem no immediately compelling reason why one should explore this connection-for a start, The Bos tonions appeared almost two decades before Keller became famous, so there can be no question of the latter having \"influenced\" the former-but the wager of this essay is nonetheless that such exploration is worthwhile, and that in doing this, one illuminates not only James's oeuvre (including texts written after Keller's rise to fame), but also, conversely, Keller's hitherto underappreciated significance in American cultural and intellectual life.5 Deaf and blind from the age of nineteen months, Keller experienced a particularly extreme version of Olive and Verena's \"incompletion\"-the total devastation of at least two organic \"facets.\" \"9 (The same intent, of course, I argue, should also govern our response to Keller.) Perhaps because of this, my substantive argument echoes Posnock's own at several points, not least in stressing James's flamboyantly avowed responsiveness to sensory impressions, and his understanding of aesthetic pleasure \"not as idealist contemplation but as practice indissolubly entangled in social experience.
