Henry James An Alien S History Of America
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Henry James An Alien S History Of America
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Author : MARTHA BANTA
language : en
Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice
Release Date : 2016
Henry James An Alien S History Of America written by MARTHA BANTA and has been published by Sapienza Università Editrice this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Martha Banta’s Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America is the product of a lifetime of thinking about James and his odd, but oddly productive, relation to the land of his birth. A “biography” of an “autobiography,” it serves as a peripatetic history of the central cross-currents and intersections between Europe and America, memory and history, romance and realism. These diverse elements structure James’s channeling of his own experience as a displaced or “alienated” American into a variety of genres: memoirs and travel writing, novels and tales, letters and literary criticism, social and cultural commentary. Together they constitute the “never completed novel” of his ongoing “autobiographical” project. In its masterful weaving together of materials, text, and time-frames, Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America moves fluidly back and forth over the intricate tapestry of James’s life and texts. It identifies and analyzes key moments, words, and tropes that echo across the years, tracing the instances of repetition, reversal, self-revelation, and re-vision that underwrite this “life-record.” This study represents a major advance over conventional, sometimes oversimplified readings of James’s “international theme.” His attitudes about both Europe and America emerge here in their full complexity and contradictoriness. The breadth and depth of Banta’s knowledge of James and of the historical America from which he emerged and which he never ceased to engage, however ambivalently, will make this a rich reading experience for general readers as well as scholars. David McWhirter editor of Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship and Henry James in Context.
Henry James And The Aliens
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Author : Gert Buelens
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-28
Henry James And The Aliens written by Gert Buelens and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-28 with Social Science categories.
Henry James and the “Aliens” intervenes substantially in current debates in James studies, most notably in the key areas of cultural studies, ethnic studies and queer studies. Focusing throughout on questions of identity, and most prominently on how the latter is given shape in the very form of the late style, the book finds that James’s response to the ethnic other can be grasped neither as an attempt to police, supervise and master the other, nor as a politics of non-identical surrender to that other. Instead, there is a continuum of identity—akin to the “criminal continuity” that James registers throughout the American scene—in which self and other, native and alien, subject and object adopt alternate roles of control and submission. Both are at times in possession of the American scene and possessed by that scene. Jamesian sexual identity, too, proves to be constantly reconstituted in transitive processes of signification that make it impossible to fix the “I” or the “other” within a fixed framework—be that framework a heterosexual or a homosexual one. The eroticism that strikingly informs the late James can therefore only be captured, if at all, under the rubric of the “queer.”
The American Scene
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Author : Henry James
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-13
The American Scene written by Henry James and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-13 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.
Tracing Henry James
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Author : Melanie H. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-09
Tracing Henry James written by Melanie H. Ross and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
American Memory In Henry James
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Author : William Righter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
American Memory In Henry James written by William Righter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. The text covers the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common; and also with what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common. Righter's great theme is the tensions that impelled James ultimately to stretch the novel, his beloved 'prodigious form', almost to breaking point, in search of an ultimately elusive synthesis. The American Scene - his account of an America, revisited after long absence, that was reinventing itself right down to the touchstones of its identity - is its entry point; The Golden Bowl is its primary testing ground. The questions raised transcend the historical moment and the specifically Jamesian sense of dislocation, to go to the heart of modern identity, and the nature of literary endeavour.
Literature In Context
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Author : Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
language : en
Publisher: JATEPress Kiadó
Release Date : 2017-03-17
Literature In Context written by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács and has been published by JATEPress Kiadó this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge Companion To Henry James
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Author : Jonathan Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-28
The Cambridge Companion To Henry James written by Jonathan Freedman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comprehensive collection of critical essays on the life and work of Henry James.
Death In Henry James
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Author : A. Cutting
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-08-10
Death In Henry James written by A. Cutting and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James's fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies. Combining formal analysis and close reading with theoretical and historical approaches and focusing on key novels and tales from across James's career, Andrew Cutting explores five instances of Jamesian death: sacrifice, the corpse, morbidity, afterlife and demography. This is the first full-length study of this subject.
Palgrave Advances In Henry James Studies
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Author : P. Rawlings
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-01-09
Palgrave Advances In Henry James Studies written by P. Rawlings and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories of narrative and architecture, James' letters, money and globalization.
Philadelphia Stories
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Author : Samuel Otter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-02
Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-02 with Literary Collections categories.
In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.