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A form foredoomed to looseness : Henry James's preoccupation with the gender of fiction / Cecile Mazzucco-Than.
Van Pelt Library PS2127.A35 M39 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mazzucco-Than, Cecile, 1964-
- Series:
- Modernist revolution in world literature ; v. 3.
- The modernist revolution in world literature ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- James, Henry, 1843-1916--Aesthetics.
- James, Henry.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916.
- Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Fiction.
- Sex role in literature.
- Literary form.
- Aesthetics.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2002]
- Contents:
- The 'Margaret-ghost' meets the dynamo and the virgin: the subject-in-process and gender
- Weaving and tapping: the subject-in-process and James's metaphors for the gender of fiction
- "Is it a boy or a girl?" - Ives, Howells and Wharton
- "If manly be an adjective" - Lee, Stevenson, Conrad, and Wells
- (Un)ravelling the endless sentence: James as the Lady of Shalott
- The masculine equivalent of feminine realism or the feminine equivalent of masculine realism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820461660
- OCLC:
- 49312612
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