Jessica Levine

Delicate Pursuit (eBook, PDF)

Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton

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Produktbeschreibung

Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued discretion, the key concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion marks not only the author's relationship to their subject matter but also the behavior of the characters in the fiction.
This study takes into particular account the influence of the French literary tradition on these two authors. At the crossroads of the new freedom of expression opened up by French realism and the persisting puritanical standards of their American audiences, James and Wharton sough safe ways to address adult sexuality, and the French theme of adulterous love in particular.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136067143
• Artikelnr.: 45133054

Autorenporträt

Jessica Levine

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Age of Discretion
Part 1 Censorship/Self-Censorship in James and Wharton
Chapter 1 Early James
Chapter 2 "The Old Maid" in the 1920s Marketplace
Part 2 French Classicism and the Discreet Imagination
Chapter 3 "Madame de Mauves" as James's La Princesse de Clèves
Chapter 4 Classical Heroines and Voyeurism in The Reef
Part 3 Displacements of the Adultery Plot
Chapter 5 Handling the "Adulterine Element" in The Ambassadors
Chapter 6 The Age of Innocence and the European Novel of Adultery
epilogue The End of the Age of Discretion