Writing the Self
Henry James and America
Published on 30. September 2015
268 pages
978-1-317-30354-1 (ISBN)
Description
A monograph that re-evaluates the final decade of Henry James' creative life. It examines the narrative of "The American Scene", the autobiographical writing, a number of short stories and two incomplete novels: works which offer contrasting notations of the self.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-30354-1 (9781317303541)
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Book
04/2007
1st Edition
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
€206.60
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Peter Collister
Content
Chapter 1 Letting Yourself Go : James Arrives in Twentieth-Century America; Chapter 2 Surrendering to the Messages of New York; Chapter 3 Boston and Cambridge: Initiations from the Past; Chapter 4 Asking 'as Few Questions as Possible' in Arcadian New England; Chapter 5 Hearing the Voices of the South; Chapter 6 'Unwritten History': The Romance of James's Civil War Stories; Chapter 7 'Doing Something' for the Soldiers of the Civil War; Chapter 8 Life-Writing for the Man of Letters; Chapter 9 'An Influence Beyond My Notation': The Self-Reflexive Figures of 'the Jolly Corner'; Chapter 10 Opening Doors Into the Sense of the Past; Chapter 11 'A Round of Visits': Effects Achieved 'Without the Aid of the Ladies'; Chapter 12 Waking up to 'Some Pretty Big Things' in the Ivory Tower;
