Jill M Kress

The Figure of Consciousness

William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature.

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 173mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415939799
• ISBN-10: 0415939798
• Artikelnr.: 21675388

Autorenporträt

Jill M. Kress earned her Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Rochester. Currently she teaches American literature and writing at St. John Fisher College. Her work has appeared in The Journal of the History of Ideas and Salamander.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Studies in Nature and Interiors: The Discourse of Consciousness
in Nineteenth-Century Science; Chapter 2 Contesting Metaphors and the
Discourse of Consciousness in William James; Chapter 3 The Structure of
Consciousness: Henry James's Portrait of a Lady and the Drama of Social
Relations; Chapter 4 Relations, Receptacles and Worlds of Experience:
Gendered Metaphors and The Golden Bowl; Chapter 5 Designing Our Interiors:
Self-Consciousness and Social Awareness in Edith Wharton's The House of
Mirth; Chapter 6 The Price of a Conscious Self in Edith Wharton's The Age
of Innocence;