A companion to Henry James / / edited by Greg W. Zacharias

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2008]; ©2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 818.409
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ZachariasGreg W. <1958->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Fiction and Non-Fiction; 1: Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James's Shorter Fiction, 1865-1878; 2: What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study; 3: Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James's The American; 4: Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady; 5: The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation; 6: "The Abysses of Silence" in The Turn of the Screw; 7: On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind; 8: "What woman was ever safe?" Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors; 9: Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James's The Wings of the Dove; 10: Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl; 11: Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene; 12: Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James; 13: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James's Last Words; 14: Henry James, Cultural Critic; 15: Timeliness and Henry James's Letters; Part II: Contexts for Reading Henry James; 16: A Brief Biography of Henry James; 17: Jamesian Matter; 18: Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory; 19: Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel; 20: Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation; 21: The Others: Henry James's Family; 22: Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James; 23: Henry James and the United States; 24: Henry James and Britain; 25: Henry James in France; 26: Henry James and Italy; 27: Henry James in the Public Sphere; 28: James and Film.
• Sommario/riassunto: Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James's writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James. Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars. Places James's writings within national contexts--American, English, French, and Italian. Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Henry James
• ISBN: 1-118-83652-9; 1-78268-592-8; 1-282-11592-8; 9786612115929; 1-4051-8498-1; 1-4443-0497-6; 1-4443-0498-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146120303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 55.