Title
"Henry’s Bicycle": Cycling and Figurations of Exposure in "The Papers"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Prefaces her study of the relationship between cycling and authorship in James’s “The Papers” by summing up Jake Barnes and Bill Gorton’s exchange in The Sun Also Rises linking Henry’s bicycle to Jake’s impotence. Rix examines James’s anxiety about authorial exposure and aversion to publicity and includes embarrassing depictions of him cycling by Ford Madox Ford, David Lodge, and others.
Published in
Henry James Review
Volume
39
Issue
1
Date
Winter 2018
Pages
23-36
COinS
Citation
Rix, Alicia. “‘Henry’s Bicycle’: Cycling and Figurations of Exposure in ‘The Papers.’” Henry James Review 39, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 23-36.