Henry James and Queer Modernity
Henry James and Queer Modernity

Author: Eric Haralson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-03-27

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1139436112

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In Henry James and Queer Modernity, first published in 2003, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his 'major phase' at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of 'queer' characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author.

Henry James and Queer Modernity
Henry James and Queer Modernity

Author: Eric L. Haralson

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9786610161263

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In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his 'major phase' at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of 'queer' characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author.

Critical Companion to Henry James
Critical Companion to Henry James

Author: Eric L. Haralson

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1438117272

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Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

The Other Henry James
The Other Henry James

Author: John Carlos Rowe

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780822321477

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Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.

Dearly Beloved Friends
Dearly Beloved Friends

Author: Henry James

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780472030002

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The romantic side of Henry James, revealed through his letters to young male friends

Celibacies
Celibacies

Author: Benjamin Kahan

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2013-11-25

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0822377187

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In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.

A Companion to Henry James
A Companion to Henry James

Author: Greg W. Zacharias

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-02-10

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 111849234X

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Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James’s writings within national contexts—American, English, French, and Italian Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics

Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies
Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies

Author: P. Rawlings

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-01-09

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 023028888X

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

Author: Jonathan Freedman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-05-28

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1139825364

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The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.