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200 14$aThe trial of curiosity$b[electronic resource] $eHenry James, William James, and the challenge of modernity /$fRoss Posnock
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1991
215   $a1 online resource (373 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-348) and index.
327   $aContents; 1. Introduction: Master and Worm;  Anarchist and Idiot; 2. Henry and William James and the Trial of Curiosity; 3. ""On a Certain Blindness"": Henry James and the Politics of Cultural Response; 4. ""The Religion of Doing"": Breaking the Aura of Henry James; 5. Abolishing the Logic of Identity: Contexts and Consequences; 6. ""Adventures of the Critical Spirit"": Rereading The American Scene; 7. ""At the Active Pitch"": Mimetic Selfhood in James's Autobiography; 8. Lifting the Yoke of the Genteel: Henry James, George Santayana, and Howard Sturgis
327   $a9. Going to Smash: Violence in The Ambassadors10. ""The Amazing Hotel-World"": The American Scene of 1904; Coda: The Politics of Nonidentity; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
330   $aIn this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James.  Challenging canonical images of bothbrothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of cultural and intellectual affiliations comprised of a host of American and European theorists of modernity.  A startlingly new Henry James emerges from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, which features Veblen, Santayana, Bourne, and Dewey, aswell as Weber
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