%0 Journal Article %T Awkward Realism: Objects of Coercion in What Maisie Knew & The Awkward Age %A Adrian HARDING %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2007 %I %R 10.4000/erea.195 %X What kind of experience is it to read novels experimenting with the representation of the experience of meaning, like What Maisie Knew (1897) and The Awkward Age (1899); to read, that is, for what is felt as a necessarily objectified or presentified meaning, and then to reread for a meaning necessarily differential, as James¡¯s Maisie and the sympathetic subjects of The Awkward Age find and lose themselves in doing? Secondly, what does our experience of this reading (and rereading) mean? On wh... %U http://erea.revues.org/195