Tessa Hadley

Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of James's representation of the privileges and pains of turn-of-the-century society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780521811699
• ISBN-10: 0521811694
• Artikelnr.: 22755495

Autorenporträt

Tessa Hadley is Lecturer in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University College. She has published articles on Henry James and on Thomas Mann in The Cambridge Quarterly and on James in English. Her novel Accidents in the Home is published in 2001 by Jonathan Cape.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
2. 'In a dream or an old novel': governesses in What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw
3. 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
4. 'Blushing in the dark': language and sex in The Ambassadors
5. 'Poor girls with their rent to pay': class in In the Cage and The Wings of the Dove
6. 'The house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl.