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Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 1249 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780940450301 |
Tells the stories of a fortune hunter, an American heiress living in Europe, and a naive young woman torn between love and idealism.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 155111030X |
Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Richard P. Blackmur |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780811208635 |
"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.
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 | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2017-02-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781543072266 |
The American A social comedy about Christopher Newman, an American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.
Author | : Jeanne Darst |
Publisher | : Riverhead Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1594486174 |
Jeanne Darst grew up in a family where their life was driven by a father who was a failed writer, and an alcoholic mother. As an adult she has pursued writing as well and examines the question of whether it is possibe to be a successful writer, sober, creative and ambititious while also having happy family life.
Author | : Sheldon M. Novick |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 0679450238 |
The New York Timescompared Sheldon M. Novick'sHenry James: The Young Masterto "a movie of James's life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a powerful immediacy." Now, inHenry James: The Mature Master, Novick completes his super, revelatory two-volume account of one of the world's most gifted and least understood authors, and of a vanished world of aristocrats and commoners. Using hundreds of letters only recently made available and taking a fresh look at primary materials, Novick reveals a man utterly unlike the passive, repressed, and privileged observer painted by other biographers. Henry James is seen anew, as a passionate and engaged man of his times, driven to achieve greatness and fame, drawn to the company of other men, able to write with sensitivity about women as he shared their experiences of love and family responsibility. James, age thirty-eight as the volume begins, basking in the success of his first major novel,The Portrait of a Lady, is a literary lion in danger of being submerged by celebrity. As his finances ebb and flow he turns to the more lucrative world of the stage-with far more success than he has generally been credited with. Ironically, while struggling to excel in the theatre, James writes such prose masterpieces asThe Wings of the DoveandThe Golden Bowl. Through an astonishingly prolific life, James still finds time for profound friendships and intense rivalries.Henry James: The Mature Masterfeatures vivid new portraits of James's famous peers, including Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson; his close and loving siblings Alice and William; and the many compelling young men, among them Hugh Walpole and Howard Sturgis, with whom James exchanges professions of love and among whom he thrives. We see a master converting the materials of an active life into great art. Here, too, as one century ends and another begins, is James's participation in the public events of his native America and adopted England. As the still-feudal European world is shaken by democracy and as America sees itself endangered by a wave of Jewish and Italian immigrants, a troubled James wrestles with his own racial prejudices and his desire for justice. With the coming of world war all other considerations are set aside, and James enlists in the cause of civilization, leaving his greatest final works unwritten. Hailed as a genius and a warm and charitable man-and derided by enemies as false, effeminate, and self-infatuated-Henry James emerges here as a major and complex figure, a determined and ambitious artist who was planning a new novel even on his deathbed. InHenry James: The Mature Master, he is at last seen in full; along with its predecessor volume, this book is bound to become t
Author | : Colm Tóibín |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801897788 |
Tóibín’s remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James’s well-known texts.
Author | : Susan L. Mizruchi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0190944382 |
Prologue -- Becoming Henry James -- Global apprenticeship -- The James brand -- Professional author -- Masterpieces -- Epilogue.