Henry James

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The work Henry James represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Henry James

Statement of responsibility

Jeremy Tambling

Creator

• Tambling, Jeremy

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "The new study of James draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career to discuss James's importance as a theorist of the novel and to argue his importance as an American. It sees in the folds of James's prose different ways of creating an extra space in which something uncanny, something haunted, in nineteenth-century American history can be located. This space can be used to conceal what James said Hawthorne was fascinated by - "the interest behind the interest"."
• "Drawing on narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and recent work on gender, and driven by the sense that James needs to be seen as a cultural comparativist, this book situates James in relation to American and European writers such as Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, and Zola. James emerges as a complex figure marked by psychic mutilation, and even hysteria, and by an ambivalent reaction to "modernity" on which he writes so much. The book gives to the newcomer to James a comprehensive introduction, and for those who know James well it provides a new set of commanding arguments for re-reading and re-situating the work."--Jacket
• "The new study of James draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career to discuss James's importance as a theorist of the novel and to argue his importance as an American. It sees in the folds of James's prose different ways of creating an extra space in which something uncanny, something haunted, in nineteenth-century American history can be located. This space can be used to conceal what James said Hawthorne was fascinated by - "the interest behind the interest"." "Drawing on narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and recent work on gender, and driven by the sense that James needs to be seen as a cultural comparativist, this book situates James in relation to American and European writers such as Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, and Zola. James emerges as a complex figure marked by psychic mutilation, and even hysteria, and by an ambivalent reaction to "modernity" on which he writes so much. The book gives to the newcomer to James a comprehensive introduction, and for those who know James well it provides a new set of commanding arguments for re-reading and re-situating the work."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Critical issues (St. Martin's Press)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.4

Index

index present

LC call number

PS2124

LC item number

.T26 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Critical issues series