04025nam 2200805 a 450 991081868520332120200520144314.01-107-12445-X0-521-12071-30-511-48568-90-511-11984-40-511-30426-90-511-15683-90-511-04439-91-280-15497-7(CKB)111082128284860(EBL)202137(OCoLC)437063403(SSID)ssj0000170300(PQKBManifestationID)11159474(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170300(PQKBWorkID)10224835(PQKB)11398258(UkCbUP)CR9780511485688(MiAaPQ)EBC202137(Au-PeEL)EBL202137(CaPaEBR)ebr10005044(CaONFJC)MIL15497(EXLCZ)9911108212828486020010731d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHenry James and the father question /Andrew Taylor1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York, NY Cambridge University Press20021 online resource (x, 234 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;129Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-80722-0 0-511-01895-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the text and brief titles; Introduction The nature of inheritance; 1 Autobiography and the writing of significance; 2 Reading the man without a handle : Emerson and the construction of a partial portrait; 3 Under certain circumstances : Jamesian reflections on the fall; 4 Doing public justice : New England reform and The Bostonians; 5 Breaking the mould; Conclusion The imminence of a transformation scene; Notes; IndexThe intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James's writing responds to James Senior's epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and relocates these concerns in a more secularised and cosmopolitan cultural milieu. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Taylor's study reveals the complex and at times antagonistic dialogue between the elder James and his peers, particularly Emerson and Whitman, in the vanguard of mid nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how this dialogue anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood.Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;129.Fathers and sonsUnited StatesFathers and sons in literatureFather figures in literatureAutobiography in literaturePhilosophy in literatureFathers in literatureSelf in literatureFathers and sonsFathers and sons in literature.Father figures in literature.Autobiography in literature.Philosophy in literature.Fathers in literature.Self in literature.813/.4Taylor Andrew1968-307947MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818685203321Henry James and the father question4036935UNINA