A Historical Guide To Henry James
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Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019512135X |
An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.
Author | : William E. Cain |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195138635 |
Thoreau - philosopher, essayist, hermit, tax protester and original thinker - led a singular life. This biography includes contributions of his relationship with 19th cent authority and concepts of the land.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.
Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443869090 |
Henry James Today is a collection of seven essays focused on the relevance of Henry James’s work for an understanding of current problems. This volume includes studies of how James and such contemporaries as Mark Twain and the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis have influenced each other and modernist and postmodernist writers, such as Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Franzen, and Philip Roth. These traditional studies of literary influence are complemented by essays on Henry James and visual media (collage, painting, sculpture, architecture) and new media (digital social media and the digital humanities). Recognizing the significant cultural and technological changes since James lived and wrote, the contributors nonetheless focus on the historical and cultural continuities between James’s era and our own. Other contributors focus on innovative practices in James’s cultural era to understand how the modernist avant-garde anticipated social and aesthetic issues that are today central to our lives. The contributors represent a global spectrum of James Studies, and their diverse essays indicate James’s powerful influence on aesthetic and social issues. Brad Evans (Rutgers University), Ashley Barnes (Williams College), Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa), Harold Hellwig (Idaho State University), Geraldo Cáffaro (Universidade Federale de Minais Gerais, Brazil), John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California), and Shawna Ross (Arizona State University) represent an exemplary cross-section of those scholars working on Henry James today.
Author | : Christina E. Albers |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Short story |
ISBN | : 9780816190997 |
For each of the stories of Henry James, the author provides an introduction; a discussion of the publication history, the circumstances of composition, the sources and influences, the story's relation to other works of James, critical approaches to the work, and the history of the its interpretation; and a list of works cited. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : MARTHA BANTA |
Publisher | : Sapienza Università Editrice |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 8898533772 |
Martha Banta’s Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America is the product of a lifetime of thinking about James and his odd, but oddly productive, relation to the land of his birth. A “biography” of an “autobiography,” it serves as a peripatetic history of the central cross-currents and intersections between Europe and America, memory and history, romance and realism. These diverse elements structure James’s channeling of his own experience as a displaced or “alienated” American into a variety of genres: memoirs and travel writing, novels and tales, letters and literary criticism, social and cultural commentary. Together they constitute the “never completed novel” of his ongoing “autobiographical” project. In its masterful weaving together of materials, text, and time-frames, Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America moves fluidly back and forth over the intricate tapestry of James’s life and texts. It identifies and analyzes key moments, words, and tropes that echo across the years, tracing the instances of repetition, reversal, self-revelation, and re-vision that underwrite this “life-record.” This study represents a major advance over conventional, sometimes oversimplified readings of James’s “international theme.” His attitudes about both Europe and America emerge here in their full complexity and contradictoriness. The breadth and depth of Banta’s knowledge of James and of the historical America from which he emerged and which he never ceased to engage, however ambivalently, will make this a rich reading experience for general readers as well as scholars. David McWhirter editor of Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship and Henry James in Context.
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2016-06-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 141034794X |
A Study Guide for Henry James's "Wings of the Dove," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author | : Intelligent Education |
Publisher | : Influence Publishers |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2020-09-12 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 164542197X |
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, considered by many to be his best work. As a novel of the late-nineteenth-century, it continues to intrigue readers to this day with the differences between the New and the Old World. Moreover, this book dives into the complexities of compromising versus fighting for one’s personal freedoms. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Henry James’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author | : Douglas Field |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195366530 |
With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civil rights, black nationalism and the struggle for gay rights in the pre- and post-Stonewall eras. The essays also highlight Baldwin's under-studied role as a trans-Atlantic writer, his lifelong struggle with faith, and his use of music, especially the blues, as a key to unlock the mysteries of his identity as an exile, an artist, and a black American in a racially hostile era.
Author | : David McWhirter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2010-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521514614 |
The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.