Transforming Henry James / edited by Anna De Biasio, Anna Despotopoulou, and Donatella Izzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Biasio, Anna, editor.

Despotopoulou, Anna, editor.

Izzo, Donatella, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

James, Henry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James's fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James's life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work's textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultur...

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Geographies of Memory and Belonging

ch. One Young Henry James: The Outsider / David McWhirter

ch. Two The Aliens: Italians (and James) in Italy and America / Martha Banta

ch. Three Manic James: The Early Letters and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person

ch. Four Rome as Pure Experience: Henry's and William's Early Letters / Susan Gunter

ch. Five Rome Changing: James's "Lugubrious Modern Capital" / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

ch. Six Aftertastes of Ruin: Uncanny Sites of Memory in Henry James's Paris / J. Michelle Coghlan

pt. II Literary Tourism

ch. Seven The Author's House as Tourist Space / Anna De Biasio

ch. Eight Traveling with(in) the Master: Tourist Rhetoric in Henry James's Theory of Fiction / Carlo Martinez

ch. Nine The Real Fiction: Tourism, Modern Italy, and a "Conscious and Cultivated Credulity" / Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh

Ch. Ten "Specimens Indeed of Human Greed": The Museum of Popularity in "The Papers" / Gianna Fusco

pt. III Jamesian Friendship and Hospitality

ch. Eleven Henry James: c'est nous; Jamesian Afterlives, Part 2 / Julie Rivkin

ch. Twelve "We Shall Never Be Again as We Were." Friendship and Fiction in Henry James / Collin Meissner

ch. Thirteen Transforming Hospitality and Friendship in Henry James: From "A London Life" to The Awkward Age / Merle A. Williams

pt. IV Jamesian Sexualities

ch. Fourteen Verena Tarrant, Basil Ransom, and Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Bostonians / Pierre A. Walker

ch. Fifteen What Nanda Knew: A Truth not Universally Acknowledged in The Awkward Age / Alan M. Nadel

ch. Sixteen "If You've Had Your Woman, I've Had ... My Man": May Bartram's Ambivalence in "The Beast in the Jungle" / Leslie Petty

ch. Seventeen Hysteric Subjects in The Wings of the Dove / Beth S. Ash

Ch. Eighteen "The Dear Little Tobacconized Salon": Henrietta Reubell as Queer Salonniere in Henry James's Paris / Paul Fisher

pt. V Reframing James's Social World

ch. Nineteen The American's Options and Futures / Nan Z. Da

ch. Twenty Class Ties in "The Pupil" / Manuela Vastolo

ch. Twenty-One Value in James's "Paste" (1899): Understanding James as a Microsociologist / Maya Higashi Wakana

pt. VI Jamesian Narrative and Textuality

ch. Twenty-Two The Half-Life of Figures / Sheila Teahan

ch. Twenty-Three Disavowal and the Dialogic Late James Style / Christine McBride

ch. Twenty-Four The Mystery of Character and Jamesian Antipsychology: Bersani, Cameron, Ohi / Lee Mitchell

ch. Twenty-Five Textual Monuments / Crumbling Idols; or, What we never knew about Henry James (and never thought to ask) / Michael Anesko

ch. Twenty-Six "Extravagantly Colloquial": James's Oral Phase / Melanie H. Ross

pt. VII Visuality in/and Henry James

Ch. Twenty-Seven Transformation and Anamorphosis: Aspects of James's Late Artistic Vision in Relation to Holbein / Alex Dougherty

ch. Twenty-Eight "Born but Once": Photographic (Self-)Representations and the Sociocultural Investment of Singularity in Henry James's "The Real Thing" and "The Private Life" / Serena Fusco.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6788-8

OCLC:

892243556