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 "The Golden Bowl deploys several motifs to render an analogy between American-European marriage and the threat posed by American capitalism to European culture. Images of imperial legitimacy; tropes of commodification, public visibility and representation; and images of authorship relate cultural artefacts to the interpersonal relations that govern two marriages of American wealth to European culture. James situates these motifs among reflections about modern economic values that transform the relationship between subjectivity and commodities in capitalist societies. The dramatic action of the narrative, understood thematically, involves control over the split, commodified subjects who embody European culture." |
