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| Author | : Michele Mendelssohn |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2014-10-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748697543 |
This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.
| Author | : Richard Salmon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1997-10-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521562492 |
This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.
| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780803276192 |
This text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.
| Author | : Dennis Tredy |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1906924368 |
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.
| Author | : Alfred Habegger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2004-08-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521609437 |
This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions. This is the first book to investigate his father's bizarre lifelong struggle with free love and feminism, a struggle that played a major role in shaping James. The book also shows how seriously he distorted the truth about the cousin, Minnie Temple, whose self-assertive image inspired him; and how indebted he was to certain American women writers whom he attacked in reviews but whose plots and heroines he appropriated in his own fiction.
| 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.
| Author | : Sara Blair |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1996-01-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521497503 |
This 1996 book describes a new Henry James who, rather than being paraded as a beacon of high culture, actually expresses a nuanced understanding of, and engagement with, popular culture. Arguing against recent trends in critical studies which locate racial resistance in popular culture, Sara Blair uncovers this resistance within literature and high modernism. She analyses a variety of texts from early travel writing to The Princess Casamassima, The American Scene and The Tragic Muse, always setting the scene through descriptions of key events of the time such as Jack the Ripper's murders. Blair makes a powerful case for reading James with a sense of sustained contradiction and her project absorbingly argues for the historical and ongoing importance of literary texts and discourses to the study of culture and cultural value.
| Author | : Jonathan Freedman |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780804721783 |
The author traces Henry James's career-long encounter with the tradition of British aestheticism and places both in the context of the late-19th-century's professionalization and commodification of literary life. Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer genealogy of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role. This book aims to enlighten the reader's understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism.
| Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780822321477 |
Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.
| Author | : Dietmar Schloss |
| Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Civilization in literature |
| ISBN | : 9783823350224 |
