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Author : Lorna Schaefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Daughters and Their Surrogate Mothers in the Early Novels of Henry James written by Lorna Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 2808014627
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book What Maisie Knew by Henry James (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of What Maisie Knew with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of What Maisie Knew by Henry James, which follows a young girl called Maisie and the toll that her parents’ divorce and remarriages take on her. Her parents are shown to care very little about her as a person, and simply use her as a weapon to hurt each other. Through Maisie’s limited perceptions and understandings, Henry James paints a portrait of the ways that lies and infidelity can destroy relationships and tarnish the innocence of the children of those involved. What Maisie Knew is one of James’s best-known works, alongside classics including The Ambassadors and The Portrait of a Lady. He was particularly well-known for the acute psychological insight of his writing, which was far ahead of its time. Find out everything you need to know about What Maisie Knew in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author : Kenneth Walter Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book American Transcendental Quarterly written by Kenneth Walter Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of New England Writers.
Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110376717
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 written by Martin Middeke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.
Author : Josep M. Armengol
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433110863
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities written by Josep M. Armengol and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities demonstrates how contemporary U.S. novelist Richard Ford, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, rewrites gender, and in particular masculinity, from highly subversive and innovative perspectives. Josep M. Armengol analyzes the construction, as well as the de-construction, of masculinity in all of Ford's major fictional texts to date, ranging from A Piece of My Heart to The Sportswriter to The Lay of the Land. Given its simultaneous critique of traditional masculinity and its depiction of alternative models of being a man, Ford's fiction is shown to be particularly interesting from a men's studies perspective, which aims not only to undermine patriarchal masculinity but also to look for new, non-hierarchical, and more egalitarian models of being a man in contemporary U.S. culture and literature. By framing Ford's contemporary representations of masculinity within a more general context of American literature, this book reveals how his texts continue along a trajectory of earlier American fiction while they also re-examine masculinity in new, more complex ways. Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities contributes to the much-needed revision of men and masculinities in U. S. literature, and especially Richard Ford's fiction, where constructions of gender and masculinity remain, paradoxically enough, largely unexplored.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533276438
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (764 download)
Download or read book The Awkward Age (1899), by Henry James Novel (Oxford World's Classics) written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in English fin de siecle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment that adds to the immediacy of the scenes but also creates serious ambiguities about characters and their motives.Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookenham host an effete, rather corrupt social circle. They are the parents of worthless Harold and sweet but knowledgeable Nanda (age eighteen). Mr. Longdon attends one of their social functions and is amazed at how much Nanda resembles her grandmother, his long-ago love who married another man. Vanderbank, a young civil servant with little money, admires both Mrs. Brookenham (nicknamed "Mrs. Brook") and Nanda. Mrs. Brook seems to want an affair with "Van" but he appears more interested in Nanda. Mr. Longdon promises him a dowry if he marries Nanda. Mrs. Brook is instead trying to get her daughter married to Mitchy, a very rich but rather naive member of her social circle. But Nanda urges Mitchy to marry Aggie, the supposedly sheltered step-niece of one of Mrs. Brook's friends (the Duchess). Mitchy follows the advice, then watches helplessly as Aggie kicks over the traces and starts playing around on him. Van constantly hesitates about proposing to Nanda. She finally tells him and Mitchy to be kind to her mother, then prepares to stay at Mr. Longdon's country home as a kind of surrogate daughter.James originally wanted this novel to resemble one of Gyp's superficial but entertaining novels of social decadence. But the material drew him on, and he wound up with a lengthy book about Nanda's eventual rejection of the often sleazy social circle around her mother. A lot of the characters who drop by Mrs. Brook's house are certainly no saints, and hypocrisy and deceit seem to be their favorite pastimes. Mr. Longdon represents an idealized previous age of better morals and manners. He wants to see Nanda safely married and away from what he views as her mother's corrupting influence. Although the book ends with Nanda preparing to stay at his country house, there are no guarantees as to how her future will play out. With the novel cast almost entirely in dialogue, it's sometimes difficult for the reader to detect the characters' genuine motives. But there's little doubt James meant the book as an attack on what he saw as the increasing irresponsibility and immorality of the society around him. James was always careful to sweeten this rather dour message with a lot of witty satire on the foibles of Mrs. Brook's social circle. He was particularly proud of his treatment of the resourceful if not overly honest Mrs. Brook herself. Many critics see the novel as parallel in theme and setting to James's earlier novel What Maisie Knew, with Nanda as a slightly older version of Maisie. Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction."
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000603539
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James’s works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present. James’s fiction is generally considered difficult and part of high culture, more appropriate for classroom study than popular appreciation. However, this volume focuses on the adaptation of his novels into films, challenging us to understand James’s popular reputation today on both sides of the Atlantic. The book offers two explanations for his persistent influence: James’s literary ambiguity and his reliance on popular culture. “Part I: His Times” considers James’s reliance on sentimental literature and theatrical melodrama in Daisy Miller, Guy Domville, The Awkward Age, and several of his lesser known short stories. “Part II: Our Times” focuses on how James’s considerations of changing gender roles and sexual identities have influenced Hollywood representations of emancipated women in Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, among others. Recent fiction by authors including James Baldwin and Leslie Marmon Silko also treat Jamesian notions of gender and sexuality while considering his part in contemporary debates about globalization and cosmopolitanism. Both a study of James’s works and a broad range of contemporary film and fiction, Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture demonstrates the continuing relevance of Henry James to our multimedia, interdisciplinary, globalized culture.
Author : P. J. Keating
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571286968
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Haunted Study written by P. J. Keating and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haunted Study , a rare example of a work of literary history that is genuinely interdisciplinary, explores how the leading novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods came to develop so many of the attitudes that are now generally accepted as characteristically modern. The writing of fiction is not treated as though it exists in some kind of isolation, but is shown to be intimately related to other forms of social activity. Conrad, James, Meredith, and their immediate modernist successors Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf, may now seem to be set apart in a variety of crucial ways from, say, Ouida and Marie Corelli, or even Gissing, Wells, and Bennett, but all of them worked within the same rapidly changing society and were unavoidably influenced by its dominant economic, political, and cultural concerns. These influences were not peripheral, but central and formative. They profoundly affected the creation of a commercially fragmented culture as well as the nature of fiction within that culture. The Haunted Study covers an exceptionally large number of authors, from the critically despised to the critically admired, and examines the impact on their work of such factors as the professionalisation of literature, the earning power of authors, the emergence of new kinds of readers, and, disturbingly present throughout the whole period, fundamental democratic change.
Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780801862717
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Henry James written by Fred Kaplan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999-11-05 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one empire he most coveted, the land that he wanted for his primary home, was the empire of art.--from Henry James: The Imagination of Genius
Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780370005867
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Bodley Head Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Henry James Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angus James Wrenn
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1906540071
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Henry James and the Second Empire written by Angus James Wrenn and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three years spent in France, during the 'Second Empire' of Napoleon III, gave Henry James an early mastery of the French language and its literature. When he settled in Europe, as an adult, it was not in Britain but, briefly yet crucially, in Paris. This study identifies the 'missing link' in the history of James's literary engagement with France, between Balzac, revered throughout his career, and later French writers. It was Second Empire writers who spurred James's own contribution to the novel. While realism courted official displeasure, culminating in the prosecution of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and closure of the radical Revue de Paris which serialized it, the conservative Revue des Deux Mondes (to which James subscribed) enjoyed imperial approval. James remained indebted to the authors published in its pages - Edmond About, Victor Cherbuliez, and Octave Feuillet - to his close friend Paul Bourget, and to the era's greatest playwright, Alexandre Dumas fils." --Book Jacket.
Author : Rachel Bowlby
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019960794X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book A Child of One's Own written by Rachel Bowlby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Author : Adeline R. Tintner
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pop World of Henry James written by Adeline R. Tintner and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (722 download)
Download or read book WASHINGTON SQUARE Annotated And Illustrated Book For Children written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel takes region within the Manhattan community of Washington Square in the mid-19th century. Washington Square starts off evolved with a portrait of Dr. Austin Sloper, a decent physician. His spouse, Catherine, offers delivery to as on who dies on the age of 3. Two years later, Catherine offers delivery to a daughter named Catherine - however the childbirth is issue and the mom dies. The daughter, Catherine, is the heroine of the radical.Dr. Sloper is almost right now upset in Catherine. From the start, he perspectives his daughter as a peculiar genetic twist of destiny: she isn't a boy; she isn't lovely like her mom; she isn't smart like her father.Dr. Sloper has two sister, each more youthful and both very one-of-a-kind from every other. Dr. Sloper's favorite is Elizabeth who has married a service provider named Almond. Mrs. Almond is prudent and type and throughout the unconventional she gives Dr. Sloper some precise recommendation that he alas discards. The other sister is Lavinia, a widow as soon as married to an impoverished clergyman named Penniman. When Catherine is some years antique, Aunt Penniman comes to live in the Sloper family. Dr. Sloper unearths his sister Lavinia to be excessively imaginative, unrealistic, and melodramatic. Nonetheless, Dr. Sloper thinks that Lavinia - as she is the female's aunt - could be an amazing surrogate mom for Catherine.
Author : Judith Merril
Publisher : New York : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Daughters of Earth written by Judith Merril and published by New York : Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry James
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Washington Square Annotated Book With Classic Edition written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel takes place in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Square in the mid-nineteenth century. Washington Square begins with a portrait of Dr. Austin Sloper, a respectable physician. His wife, Catherine, gives birth to as on who dies at the age of three. Two years later, Catherine gives birth to a daughter named Catherine - but the childbirth is difficulty and the mother dies. The daughter, Catherine, is the heroine of the novel.Dr. Sloper is almost immediately disappointed in Catherine. From the start, he views his daughter as a strange genetic twist of fate: she is not a boy; she is not beautiful like her mother; she is not clever like her father.Dr. Sloper has two sister, both younger and both very different from each other. Dr. Sloper's favorite is Elizabeth who has married a merchant named Almond. Mrs. Almond is prudent and kind and throughout the novel she gives Dr. Sloper some good advice that he unfortunately discards. The other sister is Lavinia, a widow once married to an impoverished clergyman named Penniman. When Catherine is a few years old, Aunt Penniman comes to live in the Sloper household. Dr. Sloper finds his sister Lavinia to be excessively imaginative, unrealistic, and melodramatic. Nonetheless, Dr. Sloper thinks that Lavinia - as she is the girl's aunt - would be a good surrogate mother for Catherine.Quickly, the novel moves forward to Catherine's late adolescence and early adulthood. Dr. Sloper remains decidedly disappointed in his dull, boring, plain-faced daughter. Though Sloper never explicitly says this to Catherine., Sloper's dismissive and sarcastic air really stunts Catherine's intellectual and emotional growth. Sloper expects little form Catherine and, for the most part, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
