Henry James And The Culture Of Consumption
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Henry James And The Culture Of Consumption
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Author : Miranda El-Rayess
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-09
Henry James And The Culture Of Consumption written by Miranda El-Rayess 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 2014-06-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on Henry James's engagement with the fast-developing consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Collecting And Appreciating
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Author : Simone Francescato
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Collecting And Appreciating written by Simone Francescato and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art in literature categories.
This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of the nineteenth century, collecting not only set new rules for appreciating art, but also helped to shape the aesthetic tenets of major literary movements such as naturalism and aestheticism. Although he befriended some of the greatest collectors of the age, in his narrative works James maintained a sceptical, if not openly critical, position towards collecting and its effects on appreciation. Likewise, he became increasingly reluctant to follow the fashionable trend of classifying and displaying art objects in the literary text, resorting to more complex forms of representation. Drawing from classic and contemporary aesthetics, as well as from sociology and material culture, this book fills a gap in Jamesian criticism, explaining how and why James's aversion towards collecting was central to the development of his fiction from the beginning of his career to the so-called major phase.
Henry James And The Culture Of Publicity
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Author : Richard Salmon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-10-02
Henry James And The Culture Of Publicity written by Richard Salmon 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 1997-10-02 with Business & Economics categories.
This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.
Henry James And The Past
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Author : Ian F. A. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1991-06-18
Henry James And The Past written by Ian F. A. Bell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-18 with Fiction categories.
An examination of the work of Henry James. Topics covered range from commodity and style in "Washington Square", to the peculiarity of social life in "The Bostonians". Other works by the author include "Ezra Pound: Tactics for Reading" and "Henry James's Fiction as History".
The Culture Of Consumption
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Author : Richard Wightman Fox
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books
Release Date : 1983
The Culture Of Consumption written by Richard Wightman Fox and has been published by New York : Pantheon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Business & Economics categories.
Commerce In Color
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Author : James C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2007-06-25
Commerce In Color written by James C. Davis and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Henry James On Culture
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Author : Henry James
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Henry James On Culture written by Henry James and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
This text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.
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.”
Henry James And The Media Arts Of Modernity
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Author : June Hee Chung
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-20
Henry James And The Media Arts Of Modernity written by June Hee Chung and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-20 with History categories.
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art. The book contextualizes James’s writing within a broader cultural and social history to uncover relationships among increasingly sensory-focused media technologies, mass-consumer practices, and developments in literary style when they spread to Europe at the inception of the era of big business. Combining cultural studies with neoclassical Marxism and postcolonial theory, the study addresses a gap in scholarship concerning the rise of literary modernism as a cosmopolitan phenomenon. Although scholars have traditionally acknowledged the international character of artists’ participation in this movement, when analyzing the contributions of American expatriate writers in Europe, they generally assume an unequal degree of reciprocity in transatlantic cultural exchange with European artists being more influential than American ones. This book argues that James identifies a cultural form of American imperialism that emerged out of a commercialized version of cosmopolitanism. Yet the author appropriates the arts of modernity when he realizes that art generated with the mechanized principles of mass-production spurred a diverse range of aesthetic responses to other early-twentieth century technological and organizational innovations.
The World Of Goods
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Author : Professor Mary Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The World Of Goods written by Professor Mary Douglas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1979, this volume introduces a cultural factor to theories of consumption. The World of Goods goes beyond standard economic analyses, which rely on theories of individual psychology. Douglas studies how consumers use goods to fulfil their intentions in regard to one another. The World of Goods insists that goods are wanted for social purposes, for sharing and giving, more than for the private enjoyment that is the pivot of utilitarian explanations. This book offers a completely original way of thinking about consumption as a series of rituals.