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Nathan Szurek, Derrick Dogbe

Linda Helstern

American Literature II

02-01-2014

Annotated Bibliography

on

Masculinity Pertaining to Daisy Miller

We chose to review and summarize “Winterbourne and the Doom of

Manhood in Daisy Miller,” by Robert Weisbuch from the anthology entitled

New Essays on Daisy Miller and the Turn of the Screw. Weisbuch states that

without Daisy, Winterbourne’s life is motionless, he is idle. In a sense he

states that Winterbourne in part, exists entirely for Daisy, and without her he

lacks all motivation. Weisbuch emphasizes how daisy seems to only “go on,”

whereas Winterbourne’s flirtation and pursuit of her is very inconsistent, he

advances and retreats repeatedly. The reason for this is that Daisy has made

Winterbourne extremely indecisive and thusly maintains an unintentional

control over his life. Weisbuch even goes so far as to argue that

Winterbourne has been figuratively castrated by himself as well as Daisy on

numerous occasions One such example is in Daisy’s persistent teasing, she

is attempting to help Winterbourne locate his manhood and act thusly

towards her but as Weisbuch argues he has already castrated himself in the

sense that he has completely altered his stance towards her to a parental

protection as opposed to a suitor. In this way he protects himself by avoiding

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real competition but Weisbuch makes the point that this is not in proper

masculine form. Altogether the article argues that “Daisy Miller: A Study,”

focuses on undermining Winterbournes masculinity.

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Works Cited

Bell, Ian. “Displays Of The Female: Formula And Flirtation In ‘Daisy Miller’.”

Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, Reassessments. Ed. N.H. Reeve. New

York: Macmillan, 1997. 17-40. Print. INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

James, Henry. Daisy Miller: A Study. The Heath Anthology of American

Literature Sixth Edition Volume C. Ed. Paul Lauter. Wadsworth:

Cengage Learning, 2006. 259-298. Print. INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

Merideth, Eunice. “Gender Patterns In Henry James: A Stylistic Approach To

Dialogue In Daisy Miller, The Portrait Of A Lady, And The Bostonians.”

Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Practical

Essays on Theme and Rhetoric. Ed. Rosanne Potter. Philadelphia: U of

Pennsylvania, 1989. 189-206. Print, INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

Rosenberg, Warren. “Making Masculinity Visible: Teaching Daisy Miller at an

All-Male College.” Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s Daisy Miller

and The Turn of the Screw. Ed. Kimberly Reed. And Peter Beidler. New

York: Language Association of America, 2005. 151-156. Print.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

Wadsworth, Sarah. “What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type In Daisy Miller:

A Study.” A Companion to Henry James. Ed.Greg Zacharias. Malden:

Wiley Blackwell, 2008. 32-50. Print. INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

Weisbuch, Robert. “Winterbourne And The Doom Of Manhood In Daisy

Miller.” New Essays on Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw. Ed.

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Vivian Pollak. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. 65-89. Print.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN.