Jonathan Freedman (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

Herausgeber: Freedman, Jonathan; Jonathan, Freedman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This in-depth work is intended to provide a critical introduction to James' work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the past 50 years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture that was James' milieu, as a writer he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521499248
• ISBN-10: 0521499240
• Artikelnr.: 21449504

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Introduction: the moment of Henry James Jonathan Freedman
1. Men, women, and the American way Martha Banta
2. The James' family theatricals Frances Wilson
3. Henry James: the question of our texts Philip Horne
4. Henry James and the invention of novel theory Dorothy Hale
5. Henry James and the idea of evil Robert Weisbuch
6. Queer Henry in the cage Hugh Stevens
7. The unmentionable subject in the pupil Millicent Bell
8. Realism, culture, and the place of literary: Henry James and The Bostonians Sara Blair
9. Lambert Strether's excellent adventure Eric Haralson
10. James's elusive wings William Stowe
11. Henry James's American dream in The Golden Bowl Margery Sabin
12. Affirming the alien: the pragmatist pluralism of the American scene Ross Posnock.