Edition statement supplied by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
Contents:
A Native Gone Tourist? Henry James, Travel, and The American Scene / Carlo Martinez. Chronology of Henry James's Life Labyrinth of Consciousness: On Henry James / Tom Hubbard -- The Importance of Being Henry: A Biographical Sketch / Tom Hubbard -- The Irishness of Henry James / Owen Dudley Edwards -- The Critical Reception of Henry James / Zsuzsanna Varga -- "Intensely American"? Henry James and Stephen Crane / Tom Hubbard -- "The Historian of Fine Consciences": Joseph Conrad on Henry James / Eric Haralson -- The Presence of the Past: Henry James's "The Last of the Valerii" as Opera / Michael Halliwell -- Contemporary Politics in The American / Pierre A. Walker -- Banks, Museums, and Convents: Institutional Encounters in The Portrait of a Lady / Donatella Izzo -- The Art of Fiction: Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson / Glenda Norquay -- Henry James's "Socialist Novel": The Princess Casamassima / Christopher Harvie -- Art and Nationalism: The Short Story "Collaboration" / Pierre A. Walker -- Two Tales of the 1890s, "The Altar of the Dead" and "Past": A Diptych-Essayette / Tom Hubbard -- Educating Miles: Thinking the Evil in The Turn of the Screw / Hazel Hutchison -- Blank Canvases: Henry James's Portraitists and the Limits of Analogy / Daniel Hannah -- A Native Gone Tourist? Henry James, Travel, and The American Scene / Carlo Martinez. Chronology of Henry James's Life
Summary:
From the novels The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady to his extensive literary criticism, 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. -- Amazon
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