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.


Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Author: Michele Mendelssohn

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0748697543

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This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.


Henry James and the Culture of Consumption

Henry James and the Culture of Consumption

Author: Miranda El-Rayess

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-09

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1107039053

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This book focuses on Henry James's engagement with the fast-developing consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Henry James's Europe

Henry James's Europe

Author: Dennis Tredy

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1906924368

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As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.


Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James

Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James

Author: Alwyn Berland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981-04-02

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0521233437

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Analyzing Henry James' conception of civilization as culture and the relationship of this conception to his major works, Berland argues that James brought to his fiction the moral commitment that characterized a Puritan New England and a dedication to the aesthetic culture he found in England and in Europe. He concludes that these commitments provide James with his major themes, characters and fictional techniques and the two immutable Jamesian laws : Europe is better than America, but Americans are better than Europeans.


Henry James and the Culture of Publicity

Henry James and the Culture of Publicity

Author: Richard Salmon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-10-02

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780521562492

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This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.


Anarchy & Culture

Anarchy & Culture

Author: David Weir

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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A masterful study of the hidden roots of contemporary culture and should b read by anyone interested in how and why our intellectual landscape has changed quite dramatically since the Victorian era.