{"id":9919,"date":"2015-07-30T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2015-07-30T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:24:32","slug":"terry-castle-the-anti-paglia-helen-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/07\/terry-castle-the-anti-paglia-helen-andrews.html","title":{"rendered":"“Terry Castle: The Anti-Paglia”: Helen Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u2026Like Paglia, Castle\u2019s entr\u00e9e into the literary tradition of sexual inversion was a teenage fascination with Oscar Wilde\u2014she dreamed of being \u201cmale, dandified, and in some sort of filial relationship to various 1890s Decadents.\u201d Unlike Paglia, her grown-up persona is less flamboyant, more Jamesian. Indeed, the two ladies juxtaposed remind me a little of Wilde and Henry James circa Guy Domville<\/em>: Wilde the crowd-pleaser reigns supreme over the London stage, for now; James, no less of a genius, finds himself tragically short-changed by a lack of subtlety in the public taste. Then goes home and writes \u201cThe Turn of the Screw<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Castle\u2019s case, the masterpiece she produced while her rival was glittering away was The Professor and Other Writings<\/a><\/em> (2010). What is it that makes The Professor<\/em> the best American essay collection since Consider the Lobster<\/a><\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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alerts us: \u2026Like Paglia, Castle\u2019s entr\u00e9e into the literary tradition of sexual inversion was a teenage fascination with Oscar Wilde\u2014she dreamed of being \u201cmale, dandified, and in some sort of filial relationship to various 1890s Decadents.\u201d Unlike Paglia, her grown-up persona is less flamboyant, more Jamesian. 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