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1 online resource (xxiv, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index. |
| Summary |
"As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the worlds leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the authors cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception of Europe -- of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics -- which ultimately lead to a profound re-evaluation of his writing"--Publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Preface / Dennis Tredy -- On 'The European Society of Jamesian Studies' / Adrian Harding -- I: Ethics and Aesthetics. Henry James on Opening the Door to the Devil / Jean Gooder -- From Romance to Redemption: James and the Ethics of Globalization / Roxana Oltean -- James's Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique / Esther Sánchez -Pardo -- Bad Investments / Eric Savoy -- II: French and Italian Hours. 'The Crash of Civilization': James and the Idea of France, 1914-15 / Hazel Hutchison -- The Citizens of Babylon and the Imperial Imperative: Henry James's Modern Parisian Women / Claire Garcia -- French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew / Agnès Derail-Imbert -- Figures of Fulfilment: James and 'a Sense of Italy' / Jacek Guthorow -- The Aspern Papers : From Florence to an Intertexual City, Venice / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- The Wavering Ruins of The American / Enrico Botta -- III: Appropriating European Thematics. Balzacian Intertextuality and Jamesian Autobiography in The Ambassadors / Kathleen Lawrence -- A Discordance Between the Self and the World: The Collector in Balzac's Cousin Pons and James's 'Adina' / Simone Francescato -- The 'déjà vu' in 'The Turn of the Screw' / Max Duperray -- IV: Allusion. Some Allusions in the Early Stories / Angus Wrenn -- C'est strictement confidentiel : Buried Allusions in Confidence (1879) / Rebekah Scott -- James and the Habit of Allusion / Oliver Herford -- V: Performance. The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse / Nelly Valtat-Comet -- James and the 'Paradox of the Comedian' / Richard Anker -- Benjamin Britten's Appropriation of James in Owen Wingrave / Hubert Teyssandier -- VI: Authorship and Self-Representation. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American Scene / Eleftheria Arapoglou -- James's Faces: Appearance, Absorption and the Aesthetic Significance of the Face Jakob / Stougaard-Nielsen -- From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Friction with the Publishers, or How James Manipulated his Editors in the Early 1870's / Pierre A. Walker -- Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, Vision / John Holland -- Bibliography of Works Cited Index. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. (OCoLC)fst00028686
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Biography and True Stories.
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Biography: general.
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Biography: literary.
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Literary studies: general.
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Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
Henry James |
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European reception of Henry James |
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Authorship |
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Americans in Europe |
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The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew |
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The American |
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Portrait of a Lady |
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Novel |
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European Society of Jamesian Studies |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Tredy, Dennis.
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Duperray, Annick.
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Harding, Adrian, 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Henry James's Europe. Cambridge : OpenBook Publishers, 2011 9781906924362 (OCoLC)742018148 |
| ISBN |
9781906924386 (electronic book) |
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1906924384 (electronic book) |
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9781906924362 |
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1906924368 |
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9781906924379 |
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1906924376 |
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