04147nam 2200685 450 991082980840332120230721005137.01-118-83652-91-78268-592-81-282-11592-897866121159291-4051-8498-11-4443-0497-61-4443-0498-4(CKB)1000000000719836(EBL)428144(OCoLC)476272830(SSID)ssj0000354024(PQKBManifestationID)11281483(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000354024(PQKBWorkID)10302681(PQKB)11781461(MiAaPQ)EBC428144(MiAaPQ)EBC4039114(Au-PeEL)EBL4039114(CaPaEBR)ebr11112777(CaONFJC)MIL211592(MiAaPQ)EBC4445110(Au-PeEL)EBL4445110(EXLCZ)99100000000071983620220307d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to Henry James /edited by Greg W. Zacharias1st ed.Hoboken, New Jersey :John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,[2008]©20081 online resourceBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;55Description based upon print version of record.1-118-49234-X 1-4051-4042-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Fiction and Non-Fiction; 1: Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James's Shorter Fiction, 1865-1878; 2: What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study; 3: Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James's The American; 4: Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady; 5: The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation; 6: "The Abysses of Silence" in The Turn of the Screw; 7: On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind; 8: "What woman was ever safe?" Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors; 9: Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's The Wings of the Dove; 10: Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl; 11: Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene; 12: Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James; 13: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last Words; 14: Henry James, Cultural Critic; 15: Timeliness and Henry James's Letters; Part II: Contexts for Reading Henry James; 16: A Brief Biography of Henry James; 17: Jamesian Matter; 18: Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory; 19: Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel; 20: Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation; 21: The Others: Henry James's Family; 22: Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James; 23: Henry James and the United States; 24: Henry James and Britain; 25: Henry James in France; 26: Henry James and Italy; 27: Henry James in the Public Sphere; 28: James and Film.Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James's writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James. Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars. Places James's writings within national contexts--American, English, French, and Italian. Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics.Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;55.Authors, American19th centuryBiographyAuthors, American818.409Zacharias Greg W.1958-1214317MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829808403321A companion to Henry James2804077UNINA