Critical Insights: Henry James

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2016

ISBN13

9781619258372

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Henry James is recognized today as one of the central novelists and proponents of 19th-century realism. Original essays in this volume analyze the importance of James' work to his contemporaries, the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne in his writing, and his failed theatrical career.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: Labyrinth of Consciousness: On Henry James.
2: The Importance of Being Henry: A Biographical Sketch.
Critical Contexts.
3: The Irishness of Henry James.
4: The Critical Reception of Henry James.
5: “Intensely American”? Henry James and Stephen Crane.
6: “The Historian of Fine Consciences”: Joseph Conrad on Henry James.
Critical Readings.
7: The Presence of the Past: Henry James's “The Last of the Valerii” as Opera.
8: Contemporary Politics in The American.
9: Banks, Museums, and Convents: Institutional Encounters in The Portrait of a Lady.
10: The Art of Fiction: Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson.
11: Henry James's “Socialist Novel”: The Princess Casamassima.
12: Art and Nationalism: The Short Story “Collaboration”.
13: Two Tales of the 1890s, “The Altar of the Dead” and “Paste”: A Diptych-Essayette.
14: Educating Miles: Thinking the Evil in The Turn of the Screw.
15: Blank Canvases: Henry James's Portraitists and the Limits of Analogy.
16: A Native Gone Tourist? Henry James, Travel, and The American Scene.
Resources.
Chronology of Henry James's Life.
Works by Henry James.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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