The Cambridge companion to Henry James / edited by Jonathan Freedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freedman, Jonathan, 1954- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

James, Henry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.

Contents:

Introduction : the moment of Henry James / Jonathan Freedman

Men, women, and the American way / Martha Banta

James family theatricals : behind the scenes / Frances Wilson

Henry James at work : the question of our texts / Philip Horne

Henry James and the invention of novel theory / Dorothy J. Hale

Henry James and the idea of evil / Robert Weisbuch

Queer Henry In the Cage / Hugh Stevens

Unmentionable subject in "The pupil" / Millicent Bell

Realism, culture, and the place of the literary : Henry James and The Bostonians / Sara Blair

Lambert Strether's excellent adventure / Eric Haralson

James's elusive Wings / William Stowe

Henry James's American Dream in The Golden Bowl / Margery Sabin

Affirming the alien : the pragmatist pluralism of The American scene / Ross Posnock.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81550-4

1-139-00035-7