03243oam 2200637I 450 991097177910332120251117090038.01-351-95932-81-315-26286-X10.4324/9781315262864 (CKB)3710000001081377(MiAaPQ)EBC4817395(Au-PeEL)EBL4817395(CaPaEBR)ebr11356562(OCoLC)975222946(OCoLC)988383741(OCoLC)974711503(FINmELB)ELB140642(BIP)63376246(BIP)8476210(EXLCZ)99371000000108137720180706e20162004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAmerican memory in Henry James void and value /William Righter ; edited by Rosemary Righter1st ed.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (233 pages) illustrationsFirst published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-3674-7 1-351-95933-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. America deconstructed -- pt. 2. The note of Europe -- pt. 3. Amerigo in an American nowhere -- pt. 4. A dark fable of love and power -- pt. 5. Form and contingency.American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. The text covers the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common; and also with what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common. Righter's great theme is the tensions that impelled James ultimately to stretch the novel, his beloved 'prodigious form', almost to breaking point, in search of an ultimately elusive synthesis. The American Scene - his account of an America, revisited after long absence, that was reinventing itself right down to the touchstones of its identity - is its entry point; The Golden Bowl is its primary testing ground. The questions raised transcend the historical moment and the specifically Jamesian sense of dislocation, to go to the heart of modern identity, and the nature of literary endeavour.National characteristics, American, in literatureLiterature and historyUnited StatesHistory in literatureMemory in literatureUnited StatesIn literatureNational characteristics, American, in literature.Literature and historyHistory in literature.Memory in literature.813/.4Righter William191448Righter Rosemary1869995MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971779103321American memory in Henry James4478306UNINA