LEADER 03824nam 2200529 450 001 9910772080903321 005 20231128065540.0 010 $a1-00-319956-9 010 $a1-000-91271-X 010 $a1-003-19956-9 035 $a(CKB)26756311000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7252501 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7252501 035 $a(BIP)089547915 035 $a(NjHacI)9926756311000041 035 $a(OCoLC)1382692791 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926756311000041 100 $a20231128d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrepossessing Henry James $eThe Strange Freedom /$fJulia?n Jime?nez Heffernan 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cRoutledge,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Series 311 $a9781032058658 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aApophrades. The return of the dead : notes on belated freedom -- Askesis. The imaginary value : parables of the bastard son from Hamlet to The Princess Casamassima -- Daemonization. The strange freedom : the turn of the screw and the Pamela controversy -- Tessera. The enthusiasm of liberty : martyrdom and ascension in the Wings of the dove -- Kenosis. Friendly hints, tangled clued : rewriting Thackeray in the ambassadors -- Clinamen. Swerving from Dickens : individuation in the ivory tower. 330 8 $aThe novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens. This subtextual arrogation sets constrains to the unfolding, in James's narratives, of liberal and romantic freedom-it places limits both to the absolute exemptions of aesthetic interest and to radical Bohemian abandon. But these constrains and limits can be regarded, dialectically, as the enabling conditions of the very liberty they imperil. Drawing on recent research on the spectral dynamics and indirections of literary influence by scholars like Adrian Poole, Philip Horne, Nicola Bradbury, Tamara Follini, and Peter Rawlings, but also on earlier deconstructive work by John Carlos Rowe, Prepossessing Henry James offers a speculative account of the way James is simultaneously resourced and restrained by his sources. Along the way, we discover how Hamlet's ghost instills in James a fantasy of mental autonomy, or how he adapts Gibbon's Enlightened narrative to inhibit civic liberty with images of female sacrifice. We see the governess in The Turn of the Screw possessed by the specter of Richardson's Pamela, exposing social freedoms with liberal brutality. We encounter Gray, in The Ivory Tower, striving to obtain personal freedom by repressing Dickensian "figures, monstruous, fantastic." And, finally, we recognize how much The Ambassadors owes to the ambiguous manner of Thackeray. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature. 606 $aGhosts in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aGhosts in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.4 700 $aJime?nez Heffernan$b Julia?n$01461093 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910772080903321 996 $aPrepossessing Henry James$93662987 997 $aUNINA