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Henry James and the father question / / Andrew Taylor [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Taylor Andrew <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Henry James and the father question / / Andrew Taylor [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 813/.4
Soggetto topico: Fathers and sons - United States
Fathers and sons in literature
Father figures in literature
Autobiography in literature
Philosophy in literature
Fathers in literature
Self in literature
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the text and brief titles; Introduction The nature of inheritance; 1 Autobiography and the writing of significance; 2 Reading the man without a handle : Emerson and the construction of a partial portrait; 3 Under certain circumstances : Jamesian reflections on the fall; 4 Doing public justice : New England reform and The Bostonians; 5 Breaking the mould; Conclusion The imminence of a transformation scene; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James's writing responds to James Senior's epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and relocates these concerns in a more secularised and cosmopolitan cultural milieu. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Taylor's study reveals the complex and at times antagonistic dialogue between the elder James and his peers, particularly Emerson and Whitman, in the vanguard of mid nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how this dialogue anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood.
Altri titoli varianti: Henry James & the Father Question
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ISBN: 1-107-12445-X
0-521-12071-3
0-511-48568-9
0-511-11984-4
0-511-30426-9
0-511-15683-9
0-511-04439-9
1-280-15497-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456001703321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; ; 129.