Henry James and the Social Question
Author: Ralph Arthur Ranald
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Published: 1962
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Author: Ralph Arthur Ranald
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Published: 1962
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elsie B. Michie
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1421402327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate the anxieties surrounding money that developed along with the rise of capitalism in nineteenth-century England. Michie focuses in particular on the character of the wealthy heiress and how she, unlike her male counterpart, represents the tensions in British society between the desire for wealth and advancement and the fear that economic development would blur the traditional boundaries of social classes. Michie explores how novelists of the period captured with particular vividness England’s ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers. Each chapter reads a novelist alongside a contemporary thinker, tracing the development of capitalism in Britain: Jane Austen and Adam Smith and the rise of commercial society, Frances Trollope and Thomas Robert Malthus and industrialism, Anthony Trollope and Walter Bagehot and the political influence of money, Margaret Oliphant and John Stuart Mill and professionalism and managerial capitalism, and Henry James and Georg Simmel and the shift of economic dominance from England to America. Even the great romantic novels of the nineteenth century cannot disentangle themselves from the vulgar question of money. Michie’s fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.
Author: Henry James
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780803276192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.
Author: Frederick Wilcox Dupee
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 340
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Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-02-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1139432540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James's writing responds to James Senior's epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and relocates these concerns in a more secularised and cosmopolitan cultural milieu. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Taylor's study reveals the complex and at times antagonistic dialogue between the elder James and his peers, particularly Emerson and Whitman, in the vanguard of mid nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how this dialogue anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood.
Author: Manfred Mackenzie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780674151604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a study of the essential Henry James, a study that delineates the development of his imagination, not in a strictly chronological way but by isolating patterns that can be applied to his work as a whole. Manfred Mackenzie analyzes James’s social imagination, examining the kind of society and social structure he tended to portray and the motivations of his characters. The experience of exposure, the author argues, is met with everywhere in James: identity and honor sought, won, or lost. Secrecy, or the use of secrecy in conspiracy, is a reaction to exposure, and cabal and conspiracy are consistently an element in the protagonists’ quests. As James matured, however, he seemed to realize that identity and honor are ambiguous, and ultimately dehumanizing; a different set of values was needed. Mackenzie argues that a final plane of experience steadily emerges in James’s work, that of love as manifested in the capacity to sacrifice identity and honor.
Author: William James
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780813916941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single-volume distillation of the exchange between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Spanning more than fifty years, their correspondence presents a lively account of the persons, places, and events that affected the Euro-American world from 1861 until the death of William James in August 1910. An engaging introduction by John J. McDermott suggests the significance of the Selected Letters for the study of the entire family.
Author: Henry James
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Published: 1947
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian F. A. Bell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780389205159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of new essays relates James's work to the political and social issues of his day, making this outstanding literary figure accessible to a broader reading public. Contributors include Richard Godden and Charles Swann, Millicent Bell and Deborah Phillips.
Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780822321477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRowe 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.