Robert B. Pippin

Henry James and Modern Moral Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9780521655477
• ISBN-10: 0521655471
• Artikelnr.: 22273107

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Modern morals
2. 'A kind of morbid modernity?'
3. 'Crudities of mutual resistance'
4. Beasts, secrets, and ghosts
5. Isabel Archer's 'beastly pure mind'
6. The 'strange logic' of Lambert Strether's 'Double consciousness'
7. '... without your life, what have you got?' Concluding remarks
Texts by James
Bibliography.