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Description
In this new study of Henry James, which draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career, Jeremy Tambling discusses James's importance as a theorist of the novel and argues for his importance as an American. He sees all James's work as a complex engagement with America and an attempt to find something in textual form that has been missed in the actual experience of America, in comparison with what he has imagined he has found in Europe. Tambling makes use of current critical theory, but his aim is to elucidate what it was that drove this writer to more and more difficulty in writing. This book provides the newcomer to James with a comprehensive introduction and also gives a new set of commanding arguments for re-reading and re-situating the work.
Table of Contents
A Note on Editions and Abbreviations
Introduction: Reading The American Scene
Two Texts: 'The Interest Behind the Interest': The Last of the Valerii and The Ambassadors
Histories of Sexuality in The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians
Monomania and the American Past: The Aspern Papers
Allegorical Autobiography and The Turn of the Screw
'Within a Modern Shade': Race, Sex and Class in The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew and The Awkward Age
Henry James's 'American Girl': The Wings of the Dove
'The Haunted Man': The Beast in the Jungle
What does the American Want?: The Golden Bowl
The Jolly Corner: A Tale of New York
Index.
Product details
| Published | Feb 22 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9780333687345 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | Critical Issues |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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