Julián Jiménez Heffernan

Prepossessing Henry James

The Strange Freedom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781032058658
• ISBN-10: 103205865X
• Artikelnr.: 67680351

Autorenporträt

Julián Jiménez Heffernan (Ph.D. Bologna, Italy) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. He has authored three books on Shakespeare, co-edited the collection Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2013), and published many essays on Renaissance philosophy, deconstruction, and modern fiction-from Samuel Richardson to Nadine Gordimer. He is currently working on a book on Karl Marx and William Thackeray.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: APOPHRADES. The Return of the Dead: Notes on Belated Freedom
Chapter 2: ASKESIS. The Imaginary Value: Parables of the Bastard Son from
Hamlet to The Princess Casamassima
Chapter 3: DAEMONIZATION. The Strange Freedom: The Turn of the Screw and
the Pamela Controversy
Chapter 4: TESSERA. The Enthusiasm of Liberty: Martyrdom and Ascension in
The Wings of the Dove
Chapter 5: KENOSIS. Friendly Hints, Tangled Clued: Rewriting Thackeray in
The Ambassadors
Chapter 6. CLINAMEN. Swerving from Dickens: Individuation in The Ivory
Tower