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Henry James's Thwarted Love

Author : Wendy Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804735391
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Henry James's Thwarted Love written by Wendy Graham and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book argues that in his fiction Henry James was more canny about sexual identities, more focused on sexual pleasure, and more insistent on flouting heterosexual convention than has been acknowledged by his critics and biographers. Without leaping to the construction of a "gay" Henry James, whose writings aver a conscious sexual preference, the author demonstrates James's deep engagement with the construct of sexual "inversion," his familiarity with the tropes and traffic of the late-Victorian sexual underground, and his resistance to the cultural codes and institutions that disciplined social and private behavior. The volume aligns biographical and textual readings with specific topics in intellectual and cultural history, placing the novelist and his works within the key discursive frameworks that emerged during his lifetime: mental hygiene, sexology, psychiatry, and cultural anthropology. In reconsidering James's reputed celibacy and effeminacy, the author makes use of recent gender and queer theory, while remaining carefully attentive to the contemporary terms at James's disposal for understanding his own sexuality and gender identification. The author also elaborates the family dynamics that affected James's gender and professional identity conflicts, notably his turbulent relations with his brother William James, whose pathologizing of the "unhygienic" creative life conditioned his thinking about both sexuality and art. Extended discussions of four novels--Roderick Hudson, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, and The Wings of the Dove--underscore James's resistance to the disciplinary mechanisms that regulate homoerotic desire under the aegis of mental hygiene and sexual "responsibility." Understanding, with queer theory, that sublimation can be a form of pleasure in a non-heterosexual community, the book views James's erotic economy of artistic production--even as it increasingly emphasized self-discipline--as a means of circumventing the suppression of sexual nonconformity.

A Companion to Henry James

Author : Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111849234X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Henry James written by Greg W. Zacharias and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James’s writings within national contexts—American, English, French, and Italian Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics

From Desire to Love

Author : David Bruce McWhirter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book From Desire to Love written by David Bruce McWhirter and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480041
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement written by David Garrett Izzo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; he finally become a British subject near the end of his life. His status as a permanent outsider is responsible for the recurring themes in his writing dealing with European sophistication (decadence) compared to American lack of sophistication (or innocence). He is respected in modern times for his psychological insight, for being able to reveal his characters' deepest motivations. These 11 essays, along with an introduction and an afterword, examine James's work through the prism of the author's latest style. Topics the contributing authors address include the Henry James revival of the 1930s, three of James's male aesthetics, women in his works, literary forgery, and parallels with the career and views of Margaret Oliphant. Three essays delve into issues of representation in art and fiction, then three more explore decadence, identity and homosexuality.

Henry James's Feminist Afterlives

Author : Kathryn Wichelns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319718002
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Henry James's Feminist Afterlives written by Kathryn Wichelns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless share complex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history of feminist scholarly responses to their work. Kathryn Wichelns draws upon James’ correspondence with Fields, as well as Dickinson’s and Duras’s revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of his project. By contextualizing his writing within a diverse set of feminist perspectives, each grounded in a specific time and place, as well as nineteenth-century views of queer male sexuality, Wichelns demonstrates the centrality of Henry James’s ambivalent identifications with women to his work.

Love and Loyalty

Author : Jennifer B. Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Love and Loyalty written by Jennifer B. Dean and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry James and the Abuse of the Past

Author : P. Rawlings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504965
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Henry James and the Abuse of the Past written by P. Rawlings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James and the Abuse of the Past explores the complex uses to which James puts his oblique experience of the American Civil War. Why does James use and abuse the past by fabricating and distorting people and events in his autobiographical work? The study integrates four elements: history, the past and problems of narration and representation; the homoerotics of the Civil war tales and other soldiering fiction; a life-long pre-occupation with Shakespeare as a historical figure; and theories of time as they come under the pressure of trauma and war. This well-written, insightful and persuasive study is an important contribution to James scholarship and will be of interest to any students and scholars of James

Critical Companion to Henry James

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438117272
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to Henry James written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

Henry James Goes to the Movies

Author : Susan M. Griffin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185416
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Henry James Goes to the Movies written by Susan M. Griffin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has a nineteenth-century author with an elitist reputation proved so popular with directors as varied as William Wyler, François Truffaut, and James Ivory? A partial answer lies in the way many of Henry James's recurring themes still haunt us: the workings of power, the position of women in society, the complexities of sexuality and desire. Susan Griffin has assembled fifteen of the world's foremost authorities on Henry James to examine both the impact of James on film and the impact of film on James. Anthony Mazella traces the various adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, from novel to play to opera to film. Peggy McCormack examines the ways the personal lives of Peter Bogdanovich and then-girlfriend Cybill Shepherd influenced critical reaction to Daisy Miller (1974). Leland Person points out the consequences of casting Christopher Reeve—then better known as Superman—in The Bostonians (1984) during the conservative political context of the first Reagan presidency. Nancy Bentley defends Jane Campion's anachronistic reading of Portrait of a Lady (1996) as being more "authentic" than the more common period costume dramas. Dale Bauer observes James's influence on such films as Next Stop, Wonderland (1998) and Notting Hill (1999). Marc Bousquet explores the ways Wings of the Dove (1997) addresses the economic and cultural situations of Gen-X viewers. Other fascinating essays as well as a complete filmography and bibliography of work on James and film round out the collection.

Henry James and the Queerness of Style

Author : Mark Fenster
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 081665493X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Henry James and the Queerness of Style written by Mark Fenster and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James’s late works.

James's The Turn of the Screw

Author : Leonard Orr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441119183
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book James's The Turn of the Screw written by Leonard Orr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James's ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for undergraduate study. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting The Turn of the Screw in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.

Queer Impressions

Author : Elaine Pigeon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135490198
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Queer Impressions written by Elaine Pigeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady, this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in particular, her Emersonian idealism. In order to expose Emerson's blind spot, a lacuna at the very centre of his New England Transcendentalism, James draws on the Gothic effects of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, thereby producing an intensification of Isabel Archer's psychological state and precipitating her awakening to a fuller, heightened consciousness. Thus Romanticism takes an aesthetic turn, becoming distinctly Paterian and unleashing queer possibilities that are further developed in James's subsequent fiction. This book follows the Paterian thread, leading to The Author of Beltraffio and Théophile Gauthier, and thereby establishing an important connection with French culture. Drawing on James's famous analogy between the art of fiction and the art of the painter, the book explores a possible link to the Impressionist painters associated with the literary circle Émile Zola dominated. It then turns to A New England Winter, a tale about an American Impressionist painter, and finds traces leading back to James's initiation prèmiere. The book closes with an exploration of the possible sources of Kate Croy's unspeakable father in The Wings of the Dove and proposes a possible intertext, one that provides direct insight into the Victorian closet.

Monopolizing the Master

Author : Michael Anesko
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804782644
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Monopolizing the Master written by Michael Anesko and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later generations of critics and biographers. Monopolizing the Master gives a blow-by-blow account of this conflict, which aroused intense feelings of jealousy, suspicion, and proprietorship among those who claimed to be the just custodians of James's literary legacy. With an unprecedented amount of new evidence now available, Michael Anesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired—and influenced—the deliberate construction of the Legend of the Master.

Love and Marriage in the Works of Henry James

Author : Francis Cyril Duncan Cull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Love and Marriage in the Works of Henry James written by Francis Cyril Duncan Cull and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

House of Wits

Author : Paul Fisher
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 146685507X
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book House of Wits written by Paul Fisher and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American odyssey that reveals the fascinating complexities of one of history's most brilliant, eccentric, and daring families The James family, one of America's most memorable dynasties, gave the world three famous children: a novelist of genius (Henry), an influential philosopher (William), and an invalid (Alice) who became a feminist icon, despite her sheltered life and struggles with mental illness. Although much has been written on them, many truths about the Jameses have long been camouflaged. The conflicts that defined one of American's greatest families— homosexuality, depression, alcoholism, female oppression—can only now be thoroughly investigated and discussed with candor and understanding. Paul Fisher's grand family saga, House of Wits, rediscovers a family traumatized by the restrictive standards of their times but reaching out for new ideas and ways to live. He follows the five James offspring ("hotel children," Henry called them) and their parents through their privileged travels across the Atlantic; interludes in Newport and Cambridge; the younger boys' engagement in the Civil War; and William and Henry's later adventures in London, Paris, and Italy. He captures the splendor of their era and all the members of the clan—beginning with their mercurial father, who nurtured, inspired, and damaged them, setting the stage for lives of colorful passions, intense rivalries, and extraordinary achievements. House of Wits is a revealing cultural history that revises and completes our understanding of its remarkable protagonists and the changing world where they came of age.

The American

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157623
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The American written by Henry James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana Rigg, Matthew Modine, and Brenda Fricker.

The Men Who Knew Too Much

Author : Susan M. Griffin
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199764425
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Men Who Knew Too Much written by Susan M. Griffin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us about reading James.