Transforming Henry James / / edited by Anna De Biasio, Anna Despotopoulou, and Donatella Izzo

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.4
• Persona (resp. second.): De BiasioAnna; DespotopoulouAnna; IzzoDonatella
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: pt. I Geographies of Memory and Belonging -- ch. One Young Henry James: The Outsider / David McWhirter -- ch. Two The Aliens: Italians (and James) in Italy and America / Martha Banta -- ch. Three Manic James: The Early Letters and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person -- ch. Four Rome as Pure Experience: Henry's and William's Early Letters / Susan Gunter -- ch. Five Rome Changing: James's "Lugubrious Modern Capital" / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- ch. Six Aftertastes of Ruin: Uncanny Sites of Memory in Henry James's Paris / J. Michelle Coghlan -- pt. II Literary Tourism -- ch. Seven The Author's House as Tourist Space / Anna De Biasio -- ch. Eight Traveling with(in) the Master: Tourist Rhetoric in Henry James's Theory of Fiction / Carlo Martinez -- ch. Nine The Real Fiction: Tourism, Modern Italy, and a "Conscious and Cultivated Credulity" / Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh -- ; Ch. Ten "Specimens Indeed of Human Greed": The Museum of Popularity in "The Papers" / Gianna Fusco -- pt. III Jamesian Friendship and Hospitality -- ch. Eleven Henry James: c'est nous; Jamesian Afterlives, Part 2 / Julie Rivkin -- ch. Twelve "We Shall Never Be Again as We Were." Friendship and Fiction in Henry James / Collin Meissner -- ch. Thirteen Transforming Hospitality and Friendship in Henry James: From "A London Life" to The Awkward Age / Merle A. Williams -- pt. IV Jamesian Sexualities -- ch. Fourteen Verena Tarrant, Basil Ransom, and Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Bostonians / Pierre A. Walker -- ch. Fifteen What Nanda Knew: A Truth not Universally Acknowledged in The Awkward Age / Alan M. Nadel -- ch. Sixteen "If You've Had Your Woman, I've Had ... My Man": May Bartram's Ambivalence in "The Beast in the Jungle" / Leslie Petty -- ch. Seventeen Hysteric Subjects in The Wings of the Dove / Beth S. Ash -- ; Ch. Eighteen "The Dear Little Tobacconized Salon": Henrietta Reubell as Queer Salonniere in Henry James's Paris / Paul Fisher -- pt. V Reframing James's Social World -- ch. Nineteen The American's Options and Futures / Nan Z. Da -- ch. Twenty Class Ties in "The Pupil" / Manuela Vastolo -- ch. Twenty-One Value in James's "Paste" (1899): Understanding James as a Microsociologist / Maya Higashi Wakana -- pt. VI Jamesian Narrative and Textuality -- ch. Twenty-Two The Half-Life of Figures / Sheila Teahan -- ch. Twenty-Three Disavowal and the Dialogic Late James Style / Christine McBride -- ch. Twenty-Four The Mystery of Character and Jamesian Antipsychology: Bersani, Cameron, Ohi / Lee Mitchell -- ch. Twenty-Five Textual Monuments / Crumbling Idols; or, What we never knew about Henry James (and never thought to ask) / Michael Anesko -- ch. Twenty-Six "Extravagantly Colloquial": James's Oral Phase / Melanie H. Ross -- pt. VII Visuality in/and Henry James -- ; Ch. Twenty-Seven Transformation and Anamorphosis: Aspects of James's Late Artistic Vision in Relation to Holbein / Alex Dougherty -- ch. Twenty-Eight "Born but Once": Photographic (Self-)Representations and the Sociocultural Investment of Singularity in Henry James's "The Real Thing" and "The Private Life" / Serena Fusco.
• Sommario/riassunto: Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James's fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James's life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work's textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultur...
• Titolo autorizzato: Transforming Henry James
• ISBN: 1-4438-6788-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787033603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II