Abstract
This essay builds on Adorno’s and Said’s work on late style and offers an account of Jamesian lateness as the experience of one’s exclusion from the world, with primary reference to The American Scene . In this generically ambiguous book, James adopts an impressionistic approach to undermine the centrality of authorial consciousness, dissolves his subjectivity into a range of narrative personae, and theatricalizes “I,” “we,” and “you” in such a way that these pronouns only negate themselves. As a late work, The American Scene insists on the negative relation between subjectivity and the objective landscape and announces its own obsolescence.
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