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Author Hadley, Tessa.

Title Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / Tessa Hadley.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society.
Note Print version record.
Subject James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
James, Henry, 1843-1916. (OCoLC)fst00028686
James, Henry.
Imagination in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Imagination in literature. (OCoLC)fst00967604
Pleasure in literature. (OCoLC)fst01067089
Verbeelding.
Genot.
Erotik <Motiv>.
Vergnügen <Motiv>.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Hadley, Tessa. Henry James and the imagination of pleasure. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521811694 (DLC) 2001037826 (OCoLC)47255252
ISBN 0511019033 (electronic bk.)
9780511019036 (electronic bk.)
0511120281 (electronic bk.)
9780511120282 (electronic bk.)
9780511485114 (electronic bk.)
0511485115 (electronic bk.)
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