Written by some of the best-known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides the most up-to-date scholarship on his writings available today. Read together, the chapters of this Companion map the direction of contemporary James studies. Taken separately, this text offers a concise, cutting edge reference to the most extensively studied writing and critiques inthe field. This text is organized into two sections. The first part of the volume presents his most frequently read fiction and non-fiction. Chapters in the second section outline current approaches to the reading and teaching of hiswritings. INDICE: Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Greg W. Zacharias (Creighton University).Chronology of Henry Jamess Life and Work: Jennifer Eimers (University of Georgia).Part One: Fiction and Non-fiction:.1. Bad Yearsin the Matrimonial Market: Jamess Shorter Fiction 1865-1878: Clair Hughes (formerly of the International Christian University of Tokyo).2. What Daisy Knew:Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study: Sarah A. Wadsworth (Marquette University).3. Growing Up Absurd, the Search for Self in Henry James's The American: Wendy Graham (Vassar College).4. Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady: Peter Rawlings (University of the West of England).5. The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation: Sarah B. Daugherty (formerly of Wichita State University).6. The Abysses of Silence in The Turn of the Screw: Kimberly C. Reed (Lipscomb University).7. On Maisies Knowing Her Own Mind: Robert Pippin (Universityof Chicago).8. What woman was ever safe?: Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors: Anna Despotopoulou (University of Athens).9. Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design behind Henry Jamess The Wings of the Dove: Evelyne Ender(Hunter college, CUNY).10. Truth, Knowledge and Magic in The Golden Bowl: Sigi Jöttkandt (Jan van Eyck Academy, The Netherlands).11. Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene: Gert Buelens (Ghent University).12. Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James: PhilipHorne (University College London).13. What We Dont Talk about When We Talk about Love: Henry Jamess Last Words: Michael Anesko (Penn State University).14. Henry James, Cultural Critic: Pierre A. Walker (Salem State College).15. Timeliness and Henry Jamess Letters: Greg W. Zacharias (Creighton University).Part Two: Contexts for Reading Henry James.16. A Brief Biography of Henry James: Jennifer Eimers (University of Georgia).17: Jamesian Matter: Bill Brown (University of Chicago).18. Henry James and The Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory: Natasha Hurley (University of Alberta in Edmonton).19. Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powells Scouting for Boys and Henry Jamess The Art of the Novel: Denis Flannery (University of Leeds).20. Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation: Donatella Izzo (Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale').21. The Others:Henry James's Family: Linda Simon (Skidmore College).22. Beyond the Rim: CampHenry James: Jonathan Warren (York University in Toronto).23. Henry James andthe United States: John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California).24. Henry James and Britain: Nicola Bradbury (University of Reading).25. Henry James in France: Julie Wolkenstein (Caen Basse-Normandie University).26. Henry James and Italy: Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (University of Venice).27. Henry James in the Public Sphere: Richard Salmon (University of Leeds).28. James and Film: Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville).Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-4042-3
- Editorial: Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 26/09/2008
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