Tracing Henry James / edited by Melanie H. Ross and Greg W. Zacharias.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zacharias, Greg W., 1958- editor.

Ross, Melanie H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

James, Henry.

Literature--Study and teaching.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Editors' Introduction

Creating Scholarly Community

Henry James and the United States

Henry James's Shorter Fiction

Symptom or Idea?

What's in a Name?

The Fan and the Idol

Obsessed with James

Henry James's Longer Fiction

Henry James and Ford Madox Ford

Anti-Touristic Sentiment and the Decay of Venice in Henry James's The Aspern Papers and The Wings of the Dove

Merton Densher and Heteronormative Masculinity at the Turn of the Century

"Romancing Venice: The Courtship of Percy Shelley in James's The Aspern Papers"

In the Instant, the Age

Fathers and Daughters in James

Tracing the Venetian Masters in Henry James

Tangible Objects: Grasping "The Aspern Papers"

Sociability of Terror in The Princess Casamassima

"Raking it up": John Drury's Burning the Aspern Papers

The American Scene and Henry James's Travel Essays

The "Alien" Section of The American Scene

Listening to New York in The American Scene

Impressions and Aliens

Henry James's Alphabet of Impressions

"The Catalogues Are Finished"

James's Melancholy "London"

Henry James and Criticism

O O O O that Ja-hamesian Rag / It's so elegant / So intelligent

James, Ruskin, and The Stones of Venice

Critical Footprints: Tracing a Jamesian Practice

Hippolyte Taine and Henry James's Early Literary Criticism

"Liking" Henry James: the Pedagogical Limits of Political Criticism

Tintoretto and James

Henry James's Letters

Epistolary Fluidity

What's New in Henry James's Letters

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-6190-9

OCLC:

1223090480