1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787033603321

Titolo

Transforming Henry James / / edited by Anna De Biasio, Anna Despotopoulou, and Donatella Izzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6788-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Disciplina

813/.4

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

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Geographies of Memory and Belonging -- ch. One Young Henry James: The Outsider / David McWhirter -- ch. Two The Aliens: Italians (and James) in Italy and America / Martha Banta -- ch. Three Manic James: The Early Letters and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person -- ch. Four Rome as Pure Experience: Henry's and William's Early Letters / Susan Gunter -- ch. Five Rome Changing: James's "Lugubrious Modern Capital" / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- ch. Six Aftertastes of Ruin: Uncanny Sites of Memory in Henry James's Paris / J. Michelle Coghlan -- pt. II Literary Tourism -- ch. Seven The Author's House as Tourist Space / Anna De Biasio -- ch. Eight Traveling with(in) the Master: Tourist Rhetoric in Henry James's Theory of Fiction / Carlo Martinez -- ch. Nine The Real Fiction: Tourism, Modern Italy, and a "Conscious and Cultivated Credulity" / Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh --

Ch. Ten "Specimens Indeed of Human Greed": The Museum of Popularity in "The Papers" / Gianna Fusco -- pt. III Jamesian Friendship and Hospitality -- ch. Eleven Henry James: c'est nous; Jamesian Afterlives, Part 2 / Julie Rivkin -- ch. Twelve "We Shall Never Be Again as We Were." Friendship and Fiction in Henry James / Collin Meissner -- ch. Thirteen Transforming Hospitality and Friendship in Henry James: From "A London Life" to The Awkward Age / Merle A. Williams -- pt. IV Jamesian Sexualities -- ch. Fourteen Verena Tarrant, Basil Ransom, and Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Bostonians / Pierre A. Walker -- ch. Fifteen What Nanda Knew: A Truth not Universally Acknowledged in The



Awkward Age / Alan M. Nadel -- ch. Sixteen "If You've Had Your Woman, I've Had ... My Man": May Bartram's Ambivalence in "The Beast in the Jungle" / Leslie Petty -- ch. Seventeen Hysteric Subjects in The Wings of the Dove / Beth S. Ash --

Ch. Eighteen "The Dear Little Tobacconized Salon": Henrietta Reubell as Queer Salonniere in Henry James's Paris / Paul Fisher -- pt. V Reframing James's Social World -- ch. Nineteen The American's Options and Futures / Nan Z. Da -- ch. Twenty Class Ties in "The Pupil" / Manuela Vastolo -- ch. Twenty-One Value in James's "Paste" (1899): Understanding James as a Microsociologist / Maya Higashi Wakana -- pt. VI Jamesian Narrative and Textuality -- ch. Twenty-Two The Half-Life of Figures / Sheila Teahan -- ch. Twenty-Three Disavowal and the Dialogic Late James Style / Christine McBride -- ch. Twenty-Four The Mystery of Character and Jamesian Antipsychology: Bersani, Cameron, Ohi / Lee Mitchell -- ch. Twenty-Five Textual Monuments / Crumbling Idols; or, What we never knew about Henry James (and never thought to ask) / Michael Anesko -- ch. Twenty-Six "Extravagantly Colloquial": James's Oral Phase / Melanie H. Ross -- pt. VII Visuality in/and Henry James --

Ch. Twenty-Seven Transformation and Anamorphosis: Aspects of James's Late Artistic Vision in Relation to Holbein / Alex Dougherty -- ch. Twenty-Eight "Born but Once": Photographic (Self-)Representations and the Sociocultural Investment of Singularity in Henry James's "The Real Thing" and "The Private Life" / Serena Fusco.

Sommario/riassunto

Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James's fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James's life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work's textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultur...



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963178203321

Autore

Williams W. M.

Titolo

A west country village Ashworthy : family, kinship and land / / W.M. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-138-86197-9

1-315-82982-7

1-317-85102-1

1-317-85103-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography ; ; 7

Disciplina

301.350942

307.720942

Soggetti

England Rural conditions Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1963--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; Part One; I. Ashworthy; II. The Land; III. Man and the Land (I); IV. Man and the Land (II); Part Two; Introduction; V. Population Change; VI. Family and Kinship; VII. Kinship and Social Life; Conclusion; Appendices; 1. Male and Female Labour on Farms; 2. Sex Ratio, Age Structure, Marital Status and Size of Household; 3. Family Types and Number of Children per Family; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the effects of rural depopulation as a process on the structure of family and kinship within one small rural area, analysing the spatial relationships of social and economic change.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996667372303316

Autore

GAFFURI, Gianfranco

Titolo

L'imposta sulle successioni e sulle donazioni / Gianfranco Gaffuri, Alberto Maria Gaffuri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2024

ISBN

978-88-28-86688-6

Descrizione fisica

X, 485 p. ; 25 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

GAFFURI, Alberto Maria

Disciplina

343.45053

Soggetti

Imposte sulle donazioni [e] Imposte sulle successioni - Legislazione - Italia

Collocazione

XXV.1.L. 786

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia