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A Companion to Henry James

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John Wiley & Sonserschienen am10.12.20131. Auflage
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 JamesFeatures the writing of a wide range of James scholarsPlaces James's writings within national contextsAmerican, English, French, and ItalianOffers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics


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) and Executive Director of the Henry James Society.mehr
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KlappentextWritten 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 JamesFeatures the writing of a wide range of James scholarsPlaces James's writings within national contextsAmerican, English, French, and ItalianOffers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics


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) and Executive Director of the Henry James Society.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781118836521
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Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum10.12.2013
Auflage1. Auflage
ReiheBlackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Seiten520 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes on Contributors x

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1
Greg W. Zacharias

Chronology of Henry James's Life and Work 4
Jennifer Eimers

Part I Fiction and Non-Fiction 15

1 Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James's Shorter Fiction, 1865-1878 17
Clair Hughes

2 What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study 32
Sarah Wadsworth

3 Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James's The American 51
Wendy Graham

4 Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady 70
Peter Rawlings

5 The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation 88
Sarah Daugherty

6 "The Abysses of Silence" in The Turn of the Screw 100
Kimberly C. Reed

7 On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind 121
Robert B. Pippin

8 "What woman was ever safe?" Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors 139
Anna Despotopoulou

9 Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's
The Wings of the Dove 156
Evelyne Ender

10 Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl 176
Sigi Jöttkandt

11 Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene 193
Gert Buelens

12 Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James 208
Philip Horne

13 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last Words 231
Michael Anesko

14 Henry James, Cultural Critic 249
Pierre A. Walker

15 Timeliness and Henry James's Letters 261
Greg W. Zacharias

Part II Contexts for Reading Henry James 275

16 A Brief Biography of Henry James 277
Jennifer Eimers

17 Jamesian Matter 292
Bill Brown

18 Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory 309
Natasha Hurley

19 Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's
Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel 324
Denis Flannery

20 Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation 343
Donatella Izzo

21 The Others: Henry James's Family 360
Linda Simon

22 Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James 374
Jonathan Warren

23 Henry James and the United States 390
John Carlos Rowe

24 Henry James and Britain 400
Nicola Bradbury

25 Henry James in France 416
Julie Wolkenstein

26 Henry James and Italy 434
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

27 Henry James in the Public Sphere 456
Richard Salmon

28 James and Film 472
Susan M. Griffin

Index 490mehr
Leseprobe

Notes on Contributors


Michael Anesko is the author of Friction with the Market: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (1986) and Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells (1997). He is currently finishing a new book, Monsieur de l'Aubépine: The French Face of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a critical study and translation of francophone responses to one of the key figures of the American Renaissance.



Nicola Bradbury is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of Henry James the Later Novels (1979) and several books and articles on James, Dickens, and the novel form.



Bill Brown is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, in the Department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003), and the editor of Things (2001), a special issue of Critical Inquiry that subsequently appeared in book form.



Gert Buelens has published several books on Henry James, multi-ethnic American literature, and cultural theory, and is the author of some sixty essays in collections and journals, the latter including the Henry James Review, Modern Philology, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and PMLA. He serves on several editorial boards, including the Canadian Review of American Studies, Comparative American Studies, the Henry James E-Journal, the Henry James Review, MELUS, and Open Humanities Press. He is a past president (2005) of the Henry James Society.



Sarah Daugherty, Professor of English (retired) at Wichita State University, is the author of The Literary Criticism of Henry James (1981) and writes the Henry James chapter for American Literary Scholarship: An Annual.



Anna Despotopoulou is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Athens, Greece. Her published work includes articles on Henry James and publicity, Jane Austen, George Eliot, film adaptation of Victorian novels, and the contemporary playwright Peter Shaffer.



Jennifer Eimers is finishing her dissertation, It is Art That Makes Life: Experiencing Visual Art in Henry James's Novels, at the University of Georgia. She has published articles in the Henry James Review and Searching for America: Essays on American Art and Architecture. Her research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, British Aestheticism, Southern literature, and scholarly editing.



Evelyne Ender holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Université de Genève. She is currently professor of French at Hunter and at the Graduate Center at CUNY. Her specialties are nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and English literatures, feminist criticism and gender, and memory studies. She is the author of Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria (1995) and Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography (2005), which won the 2006 Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies.



Denis Flannery is Senior Lecturer in American and English Literature at the School of English, University of Leeds. His first book, Henry James: A Certain Illusion was published in 2000 and his second, On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing was published in 2007. As well as several articles on James, Flannery has written extensively on visual culture, most notably on the work of David Fincher and Robert Mapplethorpe.



Wendy Graham is an Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, where she teaches British and American Literature, Literary Theory, and American Studies. She is the author of Henry James's Thwarted Love (1999).



Susan M. Griffin is Professor and Chair of English and Justus Bier Chair of Humanities at the University of Louisville. She is the editor of the Henry James Review and Henry James Goes to the Movies (2002) and author, most recently, of Anti-Catholicism and 19th-Century Fiction (2004).



Philip Horne is a Professor in the English Department at University College London. He is the author of Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition (1990); and editor of Henry James: A Life in Letters (1999). He has also edited Henry James, A London Life & The Reverberator; Henry James, The Tragic Muse; Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist; and written articles on a wide range of subjects, including telephones and literature, zombies and consumer culture, the films of Powell and Pressburger and Martin Scorsese, the texts of Emily Dickinson, and the criticism of F. R. Leavis. He co-edited Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film (2008). He is working on a study of Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt.



Clair Hughes, educated in Scotland and at the universities of Bristol and London, taught English and American Literature and the History of Art in the UK and latterly in Japan. She retired as Professor of English and American Literature at the International Christian University of Tokyo in 2004, and now lives in France. Publications include articles on Henry James, Anglo-Irish Literature, and the novels of Anita Brookner. She has published books on British portraiture, Henry James and the Art of Dress (2001), and Dressed in Fiction (2005).



Natasha Hurley is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta in Edmonton where she works in the fields of American Literature, Children's Literature, and Sexuality Studies. She earned her PhD in 2007 from Rutgers University and is co-editor (with Steven Bruhm) of Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (2004).



Donatella Izzo is Professor of American Literature at Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy. Her latest studies of James are Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James (2001) and Killing Mothers: Decadent Women in James's Literary Tales (in Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement, ed. David Barrett Izzo and Daniel T. O'Hara, 2006), part of a wider project investigating the gendered construction of the literary field in James's tales of writers and artists.



Sigi Jöttkandt is a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, the Netherlands where she co-edits the open access journal S. She is author of Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic (2005) and is currently completing a manuscript titled First Love: A Phenomenology of the One.



Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on theories of modernity, on German idealism, and on later German philosophy, and in 2001 published Henry James and Modern Moral Life.



Peter Rawlings is Professor of English and American Literature and Head of the Department of English at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has published widely on Henry James, American theories of fiction in the nineteenth century, and the American reception of Shakespeare. His books include Americans on Shakespeare, Americans on Fiction, 17761914 (3 vols.), Henry James and the Abuse of the Past, Three American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling, and Wayne C. Booth, and Henry James Studies. His current research project is Transatlantic Sensations: Henry James and the Empirical Tradition; the pendant project is Towards Pragmatism: Americans on Religion and Philosophy, 16201910 (6 vols.).



Kimberly C. Reed is Professor of English and French at Lipscomb University. She is the editor of Approaches to Teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (2005) and of two forthcoming books, one on James's ghost stories, the other a collection of those stories. She is currently working on a book about Edith Wharton and the ghostly.



John Carlos Rowe is USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California. In addition to other scholarly works, he is the author of Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modern Consciousness (1976), The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James (1984), and The Other Henry James (1998).



Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds, where he specializes in teaching Victorian literature. He is the author of Henry James and the Culture of Publicity (1997) and has more recently written a monograph on W. M. Thackeray (2005). He is currently working on a study of literary professionalism and the iconography of authorship in the early Victorian period, provisionally entitled The Disenchantment of the Author.



Linda Simon is Professor of English at Skidmore College. She is the author of The Critical Reception of Henry James: Creating a Master (2007) and Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (1998). She has edited William James Remembered (1996), and has written an introduction to The Diary of...

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