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Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Novels and Stories of Henry James: -13. The tragic muse written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315711
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Tragic Muse written by Rachel M. Brownstein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great nineteenth-century tragedienne known simply as Rachel was the first dramatic actress to achieve international fame. Composing her own persona with the same brilliance and passion she demonstrated on stage, she virtually invented the role of "star." Rumors of her extravagant life offstage delighted the audiences who flocked to theaters in Boston and Paris, London and Moscow, to see her perform in the tragedies of Racine and Corneille. In Tragic Muse, Rachel M. Brownstein reveals the life of la grande Rachel and explores--at the boundary of biography, fiction, and cultural history--the connections between this self-dramatizing woman and her image. Born to itinerant Jewish peddlers in 1821, Rachel arrived on the Paris stage at the age of fifteen. She became both a symbol of her culture's highest art and a clue to its values and obsessions. Fascinated with all things Napoleonic, she was the mother of Napoleon's grandson and the lover of many men connected to the emperor. Her story--the rise from humble beginnings to queen of the French state theater--echoes and parodies Napoleon's own. She decisively controlled her career, her time, and finances despite the actions and claims of managers, suitors, and lovers. A woman of exceptional charisma, Rachel embodied contradiction and paradox. She captured the attention of her time and was memorialized in the works of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Henry James. Richly illustrated with portraits, photographs, and caricatures, Tragic Muse combines brilliant literary analysis and exceptional historical research. With great skill and acuity, Rachel M. Brownstein presents Rachel--her brief intense life and the image that was both self-fashioned and, outliving her, fashioned by others. First published by Knopf (1993), this book will attract a broad audience interested in matters as wide ranging as the construction of character, the cult of celebrity, women's lives, and Jewish history. It will also be of enduring interest to readers concerned with nineteenth-century French culture, history, literature, theater, and Romanticism. Tragic Muse won the 1993 George Freedley Award presented by the Theater Library Association.
Author : Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111849234X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
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
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141922125
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Tragic Muse written by Henry James and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1995-01-26 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You must paint her just like that ... as the Tragic Muse' Suggests one of James's characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel, will courageously resist the glittering Parliamentary career desired for him by his family, in order to paint. His progress is counterpointed by the 'Tragic Muse' of the title, Miriam Rooth, one of James's most fierily beautiful creations, a great actress indifferent to social reputation, and triumphantly dedicated to her art. In portraying the conflict between art and 'the world' which is his novel's central idea, James engaged obliquely with current debates on the new aestheticism of Pater and Wilde and on the nature of the actor's performance. Through the living complexity of his protagonists he reveals how much, as Philip Horne puts it, 'to take art seriously as an end in itself ... is still a provocative course'.
Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425784
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement written by David Garrett Izzo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 257 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.
Author : Christopher Lane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226468600
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)
Download or read book The Burdens of Intimacy written by Christopher Lane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? In this original study, Christopher Lane shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian ethos of the Victorian age. Lane discredits the conservative notion that Victorian literature expresses only a demand for repression and moral restraint. But he also refutes historicist and Foucauldian approaches, arguing that they dismiss the very idea of repression and end up denouncing psychoanalysis as complicit in various kinds of oppression. These approaches, Lane argues, reduce Victorian literature to a drama about politics, power, and the ego. Striving instead to reinvigorate discussions of fantasy and the unconscious, Lane offers a clear, often startling account of writers who grapple with the genuine complexities of love, desire, and friendship.
Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Reverberator written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry James
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803257474
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Theory of Fiction: Henry James written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of more than 250 selections from Henry James's stories about writers, his critical and speculative essays, his Notebooks, Prefaces, and letters, this collection brings together for the first time, in a single, systematic volume, all the important passages in James's work which have implications for or ideas about his theory of fiction. The result is the most comprehensive, exhaustive, and innovative volume of fictional theory ever published; in many ways it is the consummation of James's contribution to letters. In a masterful introductory essay, James E. Miller Jr., presents James's theory of fiction in outline; he also contributes brief introductions to each of the seventeen chapters, summarizing the major points. Abundant guides direct the reader to subjects and sources.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 9780940450301
Total Pages : 1249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Novels, 1881-1886 written by Henry James and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories of a fortune hunter, an American heiress living in Europe, and a naive young woman torn between love and idealism.
Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438117272
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
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.
Author : John Landau
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636268
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book A Thing Divided written by John Landau and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the book is representation in the three major novels of the late phase of James's work: The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. A chapter is also devoted to a discussion of The Tragic Muse written some ten years earlier, which shows James's schematic focus on this question at the middle stage of his career.
Author : Linda J. Taylor
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Henry James, 1866-1916, a Reference Guide written by Linda J. Taylor and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Sicker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886562
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Love and the Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Henry James written by Philip Sicker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the majority of Henry James's critics who either have ignored the central importance of love in his work or have mislabeled it as Platonic," "infantile," and "asexual," Philip Sicker shows that romantic love played a substantial role in James's fiction. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Marianna Torgovnick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857589
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel written by Marianna Torgovnick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts--in part because major novelists like James, Lawrence, and Woolf did so, and did so fruitfully, as they were influenced by their perceptions of artistic movements. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Minneapolis Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Finding List of English Prose Fiction and Books for the Young written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Author-title Catalogue of English Prose Fiction, Including Translations written by Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
