Henry James's Europe heritage and transfer / edited by Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding.
| Other author | Duperray, Annick. |
| Other author | Harding, Adrian. |
| Other author | Tredy, Dennis. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers, 2011. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxiv, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface / Dennis Tredy -- On 'The European Society of Jamesian Studies' / Adrian Harding -- I: Ethics and Aesthetics. Henry James on Opening the Door to the Devil / Jean Gooder -- From Romance to Redemption: James and the Ethics of Globalization / Roxana Oltean -- James's Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique / Esther Sánchez -Pardo -- Bad Investments / Eric Savoy -- II: French and Italian Hours. 'The Crash of Civilization': James and the Idea of France, 1914-15 / Hazel Hutchison -- The Citizens of Babylon and the Imperial Imperative: Henry James's Modern Parisian Women / Claire Garcia -- French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew / Agnès Derail-Imbert -- Figures of Fulfilment: James and 'a Sense of Italy' / Jacek Guthorow -- The Aspern Papers : From Florence to an Intertexual City, Venice / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- The Wavering Ruins of The American / Enrico Botta -- III: Appropriating European Thematics. Balzacian Intertextuality and Jamesian Autobiography in The Ambassadors / Kathleen Lawrence -- A Discordance Between the Self and the World: The Collector in Balzac's Cousin Pons and James's 'Adina' / Simone Francescato -- The 'déjà vu' in 'The Turn of the Screw' / Max Duperray -- IV: Allusion. Some Allusions in the Early Stories / Angus Wrenn -- C'est strictement confidentiel : Buried Allusions in Confidence (1879) / Rebekah Scott -- James and the Habit of Allusion / Oliver Herford -- V: Performance. The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse / Nelly Valtat-Comet -- James and the 'Paradox of the Comedian' / Richard Anker -- Benjamin Britten's Appropriation of James in Owen Wingrave / Hubert Teyssandier -- VI: Authorship and Self-Representation. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American Scene / Eleftheria Arapoglou -- James's Faces: Appearance, Absorption and the Aesthetic Significance of the Face Jakob / Stougaard-Nielsen -- From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Friction with the Publishers, or How James Manipulated his Editors in the Early 1870's / Pierre A. Walker -- Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, Vision / John Holland -- Bibliography of Works Cited Index. |
| Abstract | "As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the worlds leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the authors cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception of Europe -- of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics -- which ultimately lead to a profound re-evaluation of his writing"--Publisher's description. |
| General note | Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-04-24). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Henry James's Europe. Cambridge : OpenBook Publishers, 2011 9781906924362 |
| Issued in other form | 9781906924362 (pbk.) |
| Issued in other form | 9781906924379 (hbk.) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019452795 |
| ISBN | 9781906924386 (pdf) |