Tessa Hadley

Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511029905
• Artikelnr.: 38195991

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.