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Author: Henry James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 1775452123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis perfectly wrought little tale of a painter struggling with his muse brings together a number of the most important themes that renowned American writer Henry James returned to again and again in his work -- the difficulty of artistic expression, the meaning of truth, and conflict between socioeconomic classes.
Author: Henry James
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Miles Orvell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-08-25
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1469615371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting against this genteel culture of imitation, a number of artists and intellectuals at the turn of the century were inspired by the machine to create more authentic works of art that were themselves "real things." The resulting tension between a culture of imitation and a culture of authenticity, argues Orvell, has become a defining category in our culture. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author, looking back on the late twentieth century and assessing tensions between imitation and authenticity in the context of our digital age. Considering material culture, photography, and literature, the book touches on influential figures such as writers Walt Whitman, Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0486114112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wealthy spinster receives a proposal from a dashing suitor and her father threatens her with disinheritance if she accepts. James masterfully explores the moral consequences of a tender heart's ruthless manipulation.
Author: Bethany Layne
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-03-11
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 3030316505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions about James by David Lodge and Colm Tóibín, and those written from the perspective of the key female figures in his life. Part Two explores appropriations of The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors. The book articulates the developments in biographical and adaptive writing that enabled millennial writers to engage so explicitly with James, locates the sources of his appeal, and explores the different forms of engagement taken. Layne analyses how these manifestations of James’s legacy might function differently for knowing versus unknowing readers, and how they might perform the role of literary criticism. Overarching themes include ideas of queering, the concern with seeking redress, and the frustrated quest for origin, authenticity, or ‘the real thing’.
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.
Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1101972890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.
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: 2021-04-21
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Turn of the Screw is an 1898Horrornovella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.
Author: Henry James
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Published: 2020-05-20
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTEN BOOKS IN ONE! A one, beautifully laid-out volume, ten of Henry James's most beloved and influential novellas. Included in this collection are: The Turn of the Screw (1898) Daisy Miller (1878) The Beast In The Jungle (1903) The Pupil (1891) The Aspern Papers (1888) The Figure In The Carpet (1896) The Lesson of the Master (1888) The Death of the Lion (1894) The Real Thing (1892) The Altar of the Dead (1895)
