A Companion to Henry James

Herausgegeben von Zacharias, Greg W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by some of the best known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides up-to-date scholarship on James's writings. Read together, the chapters of this Companion map the direction of contemporary James studies. Taken separately, each one offers a concise, contemporary reference to the most extensively studied writings and critiques in the field.

This text is organized into two sections. The first part of the volume presents James's most frequently read fiction and non-fiction. Chapters in the second section outline current approaches to the reading and teaching of James's writings. Additionally, special attention is given to understanding James in national contexts - American, English, French, and Italian - and to understanding his work in terms of the cultures which informed his life and writing.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1072g
• ISBN-13: 9781405140423
• ISBN-10: 1405140429
• Artikelnr.: 24242431

Autorenporträt

Greg W. Zacharias is professor of English and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is Co-general Editor with Pierre A. Walker of The Complete Letters of Henry James (Nebraska).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chronology
of Henry James's Life and Work. Part I: Fiction and Non-Fiction:. 1. "Bad
Years in the Matrimonial Market": James's Shorter Fiction 1865-1878: Clair
Hughes (retired). 2. What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller:
A Study: Sarah Wadsworth (Marquette University). 3. Growing Up Absurd: The
Search for Self in Henry James's The American: Wendy Graham (Vassar
College). 4. Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady: Peter Rawlings
(University of the West of England). 5. The Bostonians and the Crisis of
Vocation: Sarah B. Daugherty (Wichita State University). 6. "The Abysses of
Silence" in The Turn of the Screw: Kimberly C. Reed (Lipscomb University).
7. On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind: Robert B. Pippin (University of
Chicago). 8. "What woman was ever safe?" Dangerous Constructions of
Womanhood in The Ambassadors: Anna Despotopoulou (University of Athens). 9.
Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's The Wings of the
Dove: Evelyne Ender (City University of New York). 10. Truth, Knowledge,
and Magic in The Golden Bowl: Sigi Jöttkandt (Jan van Eyck Academy). 11.
Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene: Gert Buelens (Ghent
University). 12. Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the
Novels and Tales of Henry James: Philip Horne (University College London).
13. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last
Words: Michael Anesko (Pennsylvania State University). 14. Henry James,
Cultural Critic: Pierre A. Walker (Salem State College). 15. Timeliness and
Henry James's Letters: Greg W. Zacharias (Creighton University). Part II:
Contexts for Reading Henry James:. 16. A Brief Biography of Henry James:
Jennifer Eimers (University of Georgia). 17. Jamesian Matter: Bill Brown
(University of Chicago). 18. Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature:
Before and Beyond Queer Theory: Natasha Hurley (University of Alberta). 19.
Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's
Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel: Denis Flannery
(University of Leeds). 20. Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender
Ideology, and Literary Representation: Donatella Izzo (Università di Napoli
"L'Orientale"). 21. The Others: Henry James's Family: Linda Simon (Skidmore
College). 22. Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James: Jonathan Warren (York
University, Toronto). 23. Henry James and the United States: John Carlos
Rowe (University of Southern California). 24. Henry James and Britain:
Nicola Bradbury (University of Reading). 25. Henry James in France: Julie
Wolkenstein (Caen Basse-Normandie University). 26. Henry James and Italy:
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (University of Venice). 27. Henry James in the Public
Sphere: Richard Salmon (University of Leeds). 28. James and Film: Susan M.
Griffin (University of Louisville). Index

Rezensionen

"This book, though, amply repays reading as a whole and in order, an achievement for a volume comprising twenty-eight separate essays. The whole hangs together and enriches each of the parts, leaving its reader enriched and encouraged to return to the essays to review (or revise, an important Jamesian term) facets of essays now highlighted by others." (English Studies, 2011)
"A Companion to Henry James is highly recommended for all libraries collecting on Anglo-American literature and culture." ( Reference Reviews , 2009)

"Lovers of Henry James will be thrilled with this collection, which, as Zacharias notes in his introduction, aims to 'represent the diversity and richness of James studies today.'" ( Choice Reviews , June 2009)