Jill M Kress

The Figure of Consciousness

William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415864985
• ISBN-10: 0415864984
• Artikelnr.: 37315884

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;