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.

The Reception of Henry James in Europe
The Reception of Henry James in Europe

Author: Annick Duperray

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which Henry James was translated, published and reviewed in Europe.

Henry James in Context
Henry James in Context

Author: David McWhirter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-16

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0521514614

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The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.

Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 155111030X

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Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.

Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century
Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Dennis Tredy

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-07

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781527532878

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To commemorate the recent centennial of Henry James?ÇÖs death and to help readers understand the depth and scope of the author?ÇÖs influence both today and during the previous century, thirty leading Jamesian scholars from twelve different countries and five continents were asked to explore ways in which the notions of ?Çÿheritage?ÇÖ and ?Çÿtransmission?ÇÖ currently come into play when reading James. The resulting chapters of this volume are divided into three main sections, each focusing on different ways in which James?ÇÖs legacy is being re-evaluated today?Çöfrom his influence on key authors, playwrights and film-makers over the past century (Part One), to new discoveries regarding European authors and artists who influenced James (Part Two), to recent approaches more radically re-evaluating James for the twenty-first century, including contemporary poetics, political and sociological dimensions, cognitive science, and queer studies (Part Three). This collection will be of great interest to scholars and general readers of James, and is a useful guide to tracing the writer?ÇÖs ever-elusive ?Çÿfigure in the carpet?ÇÖ and understanding the power of his continued impact today."

The Reception of Henry James in Europe
The Reception of Henry James in Europe

Author: Annick Duperray

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472535931

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Henry James, the American-born writer who chose to live in Europe, settled in London and Rye, becoming a British subject in 1915. He occupies a major position as a dedicated artist and cultural historian who combined the strengths of American, English and French nineteenth-century literary traditions with the aesthetic innovations that paved the way for modern and postmodern fiction. The rare subtlety and intensity of his writings can be fully appreciated only through the responses of perceptive readers beyond the English-speaking world. This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which James was translated, published and reviewed on the Continent of Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, but also in most of the languages of Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Some specific contributions are devoted to the strikingly original cinematic and operatic adaptations of Henry James's works.

The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe
The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe

Author: Klaus Peter Jochum

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 1073

ISBN-13: 1623569516

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The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which W. B. Yeats has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of continental Europe. There is a remarkable split between the often politicized reception in Eastern European countries but also Spain on the one hand, and the more sober scholarly response in Western Europe on the other. Yeats's Irishness and the pre-eminence of his lyrical work have posed continuous challenges. Three further essays describe the widely divergent reactions to Yeats in his native Ireland, during his lifetime and up to the most recent years.

The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove

Author: Henry James

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 775

ISBN-13: 1775417417

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Young Londoners Kate and Merton are engaged, but have no money to marry on. When the wealthy but terminally ill American heiress Milly arrives in London, Kate schemes for a way to inherit her fortune. But when Kate achieves all she had hoped for, she finds that the money and the gentle, beautiful Milly have changed everything.

Roderick Hudson
Roderick Hudson

Author: Henry James

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Roderick Hudson is a phenomenon among sculptors; carving life out of solid stone and moulding the wills of people no less easily. Moving to Rome with his patron and friend, he finds that Europe tests him in ways he had not anticipated, both as an artist and as a man.