A Companion to Henry James

by Zacharias, Greg W.

• ISBN13: 9781405140423
• ISBN10: 1405140429
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James's writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James's writings within national contexts-American, English, French, and Italian Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics

Author Biography

Greg W. Zacharias is professor of English and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is Co-general Editor with Pierre A. Walker of The Complete Letters of Henry James (Nebraska).

Table of Contents

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chronology of Henry James's Life and Work

Fiction and Non-Fiction

"Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market": James's Shorter Fiction 1865-1878

What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study

Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James's The American

Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady

The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation

"The Abysses of Silence" in The Turn of the Screw

On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind

"What woman was ever safe?" Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors

Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's The Wings of the Dove

Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl

Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene

Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last Words

Henry James, Cultural Critic

Timeliness and Henry James's Letters

Contexts for Reading Henry James

A Brief Biography of Henry James

Jamesian Matter

Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory

Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel

Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation

The Others: Henry James's Family

Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James

Henry James and the United States

Henry James and Britain

Henry James in France

Henry James and Italy

Henry James in the Public Sphere

James and Film

Index

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