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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457938303321

Autore

Anesko Michael

Titolo

Monopolizing the Master [[electronic resource] ] : Henry James and the politics of modern literary scholarship / / Michael Anesko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8264-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Cornering the Market; 2. Custodial Conflicts; 3. Modernist Ventriloquism; 4. The James Revival; 5. The Legend of the Bastard; Afterword; Sources and Abbreviations; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later generations of critics and biographers. Monopolizing the Master gives a blow-by-blow account of this conflict, which aroused intense feelings of jealousy, suspicion, and proprietorship among those w