Henry James

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 0140435166
Pages	: 706 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (351 users)

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Download or read book Henry James written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James's eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne's own words, James' 'real and best biography'.

The Complete Letters of Henry James 1880 1883

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date	: 2016-10-15
ISBN 10	: 9780803288270
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Letters of Henry James 1880 1883 written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James: 1880–1883 includes 122 letters, 67 of which are published for the first time, written between June 6, 1880, and October 20, 1881. The letters record Henry James’s confirmation of his identity as a London resident, follow his struggles with the complexities of his professional life, and illustrate his closer attention to family and friends. His friends, such as Henry and Clover Adams, and family members, such as his brother, William, view him as their resident Londoner. When his sister, Alice, and her companion, Katharine Loring, travel to Britain, James both supervises Alice’s state of health and also reports on its status to their parents. The letters show Henry James’s professional life as he shifts away from writing pot-boiling reviews and short fiction toward the greater novels that continue to be associated with him, especially The Portrait of a Lady. We also see James negotiating with publishers and arranging whenever possible simultaneous publication in Britain and the United States in order to maximize his writing income. This volume concludes with James’s much-anticipated return to his native America, buoyed by his completion of The Portrait of a Lady. The journey marked a significant milestone in the author’s life.

Henry James in Context

Author	: David McWhirter
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2010-09-16
ISBN 10	: 9781316154205
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (161 users)

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Download or read book Henry James in Context written by David McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in, the social, political, and material realities of his time. As this volume demonstrates, however, James was acutely responsive not only to his era's changing attitudes toward gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity, but also to changing conditions of literary production and reception, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, and the emergence of new technologies and media, of new apprehensions of time and space. These essays portray the author and his works in the context of the modernity that determined, formed, interested, appalled, and/or provoked his always curious mind. With contributions from an international cast of distinguished scholars, Henry James in Context provides a map of leading edge work in contemporary James studies, an invaluable reference work for students and scholars, and a blueprint for possible future directions.

Henry James a Life

Author	: Leon Edel
Publisher	: HarperCollins
Release Date	: 1985
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015011302752
Pages	: 792 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book Henry James a Life written by Leon Edel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1985 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the prominent nineteenth century American novelist, examines his major works, and tries to capture his complex personality

Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth Century American Letters and Letter Writing

Author	: Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2016-02-15
ISBN 10	: 9780748692941
Pages	: 752 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (486 users)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth Century American Letters and Letter Writing written by Celeste-Marie Bernier and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field-the history of letters and letter writing-is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.

Brief Lives Henry James

Author	: Hazel Hutchison
Publisher	: Hesperus Press
Release Date	: 2012-07-12
ISBN 10	: 9781780940687
Pages	: 136 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book Brief Lives Henry James written by Hazel Hutchison and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James is known for the psychological depth of his characters; for his remarkable ability to penetrate to the inner life of his creations. Yet the story of his own inner life remains curiously obscure. The best known facts about James – his illustrious, wealthy family and famous siblings; his prolific literary output with its numerous quirky female heroines; his long-term bachelorhood, and the rumours that accompanied it; and his flamboyant adoption of British citizenship in 1915 – have created a mythology surrounding the author. In this succinct new biography, Hazel Hutchison examines the writer’s childhood, travels, experiences and acquaintances – all of which re-appear to varying degrees in his writing. Brief Lives: Henry James presents a fresh take on one of the central figures in the English canon – perfect for both the general reader and the James enthusiast.

Portraits from Life

Author	: Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2018
ISBN 10	: 9780198789369
Pages	: 293 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (987 users)

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Download or read book Portraits from Life written by Jerome Boyd Maunsell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist writers - Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton - depicted themselves in their memoirs and autobiographies during the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a range of life-writing sources in this innovative group portrait, Jerome Boyd Maunsell reconstructs the periods during which these authors worked on their memoirs, often towards the end of their lives, and shows how memoirs and autobiographies are just as artful as novels. The seven portraits in the book also create a rich network of encounters, as many of these writers knew each other, and wrote about each other in their reminiscences. Portraits from Life investigates the difficulties and possibilities of autobiography - the relation of fact and fiction, biography and autobiography; the ethical issues of dealing with real people; the thin generic lines between novels and autobiographies; and the deceptive workings of memory - and how all these writers dealt with these concerns as they looked back on their lives. An act of portraiture and biography as well as an act of criticism, moving from London to Paris and through two world wars, it also pieces together a fresh and constantly inter-connecting narrative of the Modernist era in England and France.

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Author	: Megan Quigley
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2015-02-02
ISBN 10	: 9781107089594
Pages	: 243 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Modernist Fiction and Vagueness written by Megan Quigley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.

Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies

Author	: P. Rawlings
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2007-01-09
ISBN 10	: 9780230288881
Pages	: 309 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies written by P. Rawlings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories of narrative and architecture, James' letters, money and globalization.

Victoriana Histories Fictions Criticism

Author	: Cora Kaplan
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2007-02-14
ISBN 10	: 9780748628186
Pages	: 184 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (486 users)

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Download or read book Victoriana Histories Fictions Criticism written by Cora Kaplan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of astute critical reflections on our enduring fascination with all things Victorian. In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of Victorians from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies. She asks how Jane Eyre can still evoke tears and rage, as well as inspiring imitation and high art, and why Henry James has become fiction's favourite late Victorian character in the new millennium? Victorians, the book argues, has developed a modern history of its own in which we can trace the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Through the constant interrogation of history in such innovative works as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, A.S. Byatt's Possession, David Lodge's Nice Work, Peter Ackroyd's Dickens, Jane Campion's The Piano, Colm Toibin's The Master, Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Julian Barnes's Arthur and George, 'Victoriana' maps out a very particular postmodern temporality.

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth century English Literature

Author	: Stefanie Markovits
Publisher	: Ohio State University Press
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 9780814210406
Pages	: 268 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (142 users)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth century English Literature written by Stefanie Markovits and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.

A Historical Guide to Henry James

Author	: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher	: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date	: 2012-02-16
ISBN 10	: 9780195121353
Pages	: 281 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (951 users)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to Henry James written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.

Henry James s Style of Retrospect

Author	: Oliver Herford
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2016-05-26
ISBN 10	: 9780191054013
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book Henry James s Style of Retrospect written by Oliver Herford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places, cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics accordingly.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

Author	: Michael Bell
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2012-06-14
ISBN 10	: 9781107493896
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (74 users)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists written by Michael Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

Henry James

Author	: James Henry
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2014-01-02
ISBN 10	: 9780141922133
Pages	: 704 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (419 users)

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Download or read book Henry James written by James Henry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James's eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne's own words, James' 'real and best biography'.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author	: Margaretta Jolly
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2013-12-04
ISBN 10	: 9781136787447
Pages	: 1141 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (367 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

James s The Turn of the Screw

Author	: Leonard Orr
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2009-11-01
ISBN 10	: 9780826424327
Pages	: 117 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (264 users)

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Download or read book James s The Turn of the Screw written by Leonard Orr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, authoritative but very readable guide to The Turn of the Screw, offering students a guide to contexts, language, criticism and reading the text.