Tracing Henry James
1st Edition
Published on 9. November 2020
475 pages
978-1-5275-6190-8 (ISBN)
Description
Range and diversity are aims of Tracing Henry James, which brings together 28 essays by established and newer Henry James scholars from eight countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The essays are organized into an introductory section, a group of essays on Henry James's shorter fiction, one on James's longer fiction, one on The American Scene and James's travel essays, one on James and criticism, and one on Henry James's letters.
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Greg W. Zacharias | Melanie H. Ross | Greg W. Zacharias
Tracing Henry James
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Editors' Introduction
- Creating Scholarly Community
- Henry James and the United States
- Henry James's Shorter Fiction
- Symptom or Idea?
- What's in a Name?
- The Fan and the Idol
- Obsessed with James
- Henry James's Longer Fiction
- Henry James and Ford Madox Ford
- Anti-Touristic Sentiment and the Decay of Venice in Henry James's The Aspern Papers and The Wings of the Dove
- Merton Densher and Heteronormative Masculinity at the Turn of the Century
- "Romancing Venice: The Courtship of Percy Shelley in James's The Aspern Papers"
- In the Instant, the Age
- Fathers and Daughters in James
- Tracing the Venetian Masters in Henry James
- Tangible Objects: Grasping "The Aspern Papers"
- Sociability of Terror in The Princess Casamassima
- "Raking it up": John Drury's Burning the Aspern Papers
- The American Scene and Henry James's Travel Essays
- The "Alien" Section of The American Scene
- Listening to New York in The American Scene
- Impressions and Aliens
- Henry James's Alphabet of Impressions
- "The Catalogues Are Finished"
- James's Melancholy "London"
- Henry James and Criticism
- O O O O that Ja-hamesian Rag / It's so elegant / So intelligent
- James, Ruskin, and The Stones of Venice
- Critical Footprints: Tracing a Jamesian Practice
- Hippolyte Taine and Henry James's Early Literary Criticism
- "Liking" Henry James: the Pedagogical Limits of Political Criticism
- Tintoretto and James
- Henry James's Letters
- Epistolary Fluidity
- What's New in Henry James's Letters
- Index
