LEADER 04874nam 22007934 450 001 9910787091903321 005 20231213164358.0 010 $a0-8223-9853-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398530 035 $a(CKB)3710000000226723 035 $a(OCoLC)893680817 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10921273 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001062845 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11569551 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062845 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11017853 035 $a(PQKB)10429958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008019 035 $a887772926 035 $a(OCoLC)1153491877 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80945 035 $a(DE-B1597)553585 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398530 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161673 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000226723 100 $a20140818d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe other Henry James /$fJohn Carlos Rowe 210 1$aDurham [NC] :$cDuke University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2147-5 311 $a1-322-10141-8 311 $a0-8223-2128-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Henry James and critical theory -- Swept away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The last of the Valerii" -- A phantom of the opera: Christopher Newman's unconscious in The American -- Acting lessons: racial, sexual, and aesthetic politics in The tragic muse -- Textual preference: James's literary defenses against sexuality in "The middle years" and "The death of the lion" -- The portrait of a small boy as a young girl: gender trouble in What Maisie knew -- Spectral mechanics: gender, sexuality, and work in In the cage -- Conclusion: Henry James and the art of teaching. 330 $aIn The Other Henry James, John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most fruitful approach to James today is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master in favor of the writer as a vulnerable critic of his own confused and repressive historical moment.Rowe traces a particular development in James?s work, showing how in his early writings James criticized women?s rights, same-sex relations, and other social and political trends now identified with modern culture; how he ambivalently explored these aspects of modernity in his writings of the 1880s; and, later, how he increasingly identified with such modernity in his heretofore largely ignored or marginally treated fiction of the 1890s. Building on recent scholarship that has shown James to be more anxious about gender roles, more conflicted, and more marginal a figure than previously thought, Rowe argues that James?through his treatment of women, children, and gays?indicts the values and conventions of the bourgeoisie. He shows how James confronts social changes in gender roles, sexual preferences, national affiliations, and racial and ethnic identifications in such important novels as The American, The Tragic Muse, What Maisie Knew, and In the Cage, and in such neglected short fiction as ?The Last of the Valerii,? ?The Death of the Lion,? and ?The Middle Years.?Positioning James?s work within an interpretive context that pits the social and political anxieties of his day against the imperatives of an aesthetic ideology, The Other Henry James will engage scholars, students, and teachers of American literature and culture, gay literature, and queer theory. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aHomosexuality and literature 606 $aSocial ethics in literature 606 $aChildren in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aGay people in literature 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aHomosexuality and literature. 615 0$aSocial ethics in literature. 615 0$aChildren in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aGay people in literature. 676 $a813/.4 700 $aRowe$b John Carlos$0608793 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787091903321 996 $aThe other Henry James$93817475 997 $aUNINA