Peter Collister

Writing the Self (eBook, PDF)

Henry James and America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A monograph that re-evaluates the final decade of Henry James' creative life. It examines the narrative of "The American Scene", the autobiographical writing, a number of short stories and two incomplete novels: works which offer contrasting notations of the self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317303558
• Artikelnr.: 43977099

Autorenporträt

Peter Collister

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Letting Yourself Go : James Arrives in Twentieth-Century America
Chapter 2 Surrendering to the Messages of New York
Chapter 3 Boston and Cambridge: Initiations from the Past
Chapter 4 Asking 'as Few Questions as Possible' in Arcadian New England
Chapter 5 Hearing the Voices of the South
Chapter 6 'Unwritten History': The Romance of James's Civil War Stories
Chapter 7 'Doing Something' for the Soldiers of the Civil War
Chapter 8 Life-Writing for the Man of Letters
Chapter 9 'An Influence Beyond My Notation': The Self-Reflexive Figures of 'the Jolly Corner'
Chapter 10 Opening Doors Into the Sense of the Past
Chapter 11 'A Round of Visits': Effects Achieved 'Without the Aid of the Ladies'
Chapter 12 Waking up to 'Some Pretty Big Things' in the Ivory Tower