Tessa Hadley

Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of James's representation of the privileges and pains of turn-of-the-century society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780521119856
• ISBN-10: 0521119855
• Artikelnr.: 26571718

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
2. 'In a dream or an old novel': governesses in What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw
3. 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
4. 'Blushing in the dark': language and sex in The Ambassadors
5. 'Poor girls with their rent to pay': class in In the Cage and The Wings of the Dove
6. 'The house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl.