LEADER 03416nam 22006492 450 001 9910456007603321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-12534-0 010 $a0-521-11985-5 010 $a0-511-48511-5 010 $a0-511-04520-4 010 $a0-511-15674-X 010 $a1-280-15960-X 010 $a0-511-12028-1 010 $a0-511-30420-X 035 $a(CKB)111082128284876 035 $a(EBL)202087 035 $a(OCoLC)559377039 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170301 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161719 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170301 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215773 035 $a(PQKB)11582652 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485114 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202087 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202087 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10005025 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15960 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128284876 100 $a20090226d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHenry James and the imagination of pleasure /$fTessa Hadley$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-81169-4 311 $a0-511-01903-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aTessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society. 517 3 $aHenry James & the Imagination of Pleasure 606 $aImagination in literature 606 $aPleasure in literature 615 0$aImagination in literature. 615 0$aPleasure in literature. 676 $a813/.4 700 $aHadley$b Tessa$01031208 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456007603321 996 $aHenry James and the imagination of pleasure$92448467 997 $aUNINA