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- catalog abstract ""The new study of James draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career to discuss James's importance as a theorist of the novel and to argue his importance as an American. It sees in the folds of James's prose different ways of creating an extra space in which something uncanny, something haunted, in nineteenth-century American history can be located. This space can be used to conceal what James said Hawthorne was fascinated by - "the interest behind the interest"." "Drawing on narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and recent work on gender, and driven by the sense that James needs to be seen as a cultural comparativist, this book situates James in relation to American and European writers such as Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, and Zola. James emerges as a complex figure marked by psychic mutilation, and even hysteria, and by an ambivalent reaction to "modernity" on which he writes so much. The book gives to the newcomer to James a comprehensive introduction, and for those who know James well it provides a new set of commanding arguments for re-reading and re-situating the work."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11662945.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Drawing on narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and recent work on gender, and driven by the sense that James needs to be seen as a cultural comparativist, this book situates James in relation to American and European writers such as Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, and Zola. James emerges as a complex figure marked by psychic mutilation, and even hysteria, and by an ambivalent reaction to "modernity" on which he writes so much. The book gives to the newcomer to James a comprehensive introduction, and for those who know James well it provides a new set of commanding arguments for re-reading and re-situating the work."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The new study of James draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career to discuss James's importance as a theorist of the novel and to argue his importance as an American. It sees in the folds of James's prose different ways of creating an extra space in which something uncanny, something haunted, in nineteenth-century American history can be located. This space can be used to conceal what James said Hawthorne was fascinated by - "the interest behind the interest"."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Reading The American Scene -- 'The Interest behind the Interest': The Last of the Valerii and The Ambassadors -- Histories of Sexuality in The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians -- Monomania and the American Past: The Aspern Papers -- Allegorical Autobiography: The Turn of the Screw -- 'Within a Modern Shade': Race, Sex and Class in The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew and The Awkward Age -- Henry James's 'American Girl': The Wings of the Dove -- The Haunted Man: The Beast in the Jungle -- What Does the American Want? The Golden Bowl -- The Jolly Corner: A Tale of New York.".
- catalog extent "xi, 249 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312228864 (clothbound)".
- catalog identifier "0312228872 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0333687345".
- catalog identifier "0333687353 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical issues (St. Martin's Press)".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical issues series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Basingstoke : MacMillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.4 21".
- catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS2124 .T26 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Reading The American Scene -- 'The Interest behind the Interest': The Last of the Valerii and The Ambassadors -- Histories of Sexuality in The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians -- Monomania and the American Past: The Aspern Papers -- Allegorical Autobiography: The Turn of the Screw -- 'Within a Modern Shade': Race, Sex and Class in The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew and The Awkward Age -- Henry James's 'American Girl': The Wings of the Dove -- The Haunted Man: The Beast in the Jungle -- What Does the American Want? The Golden Bowl -- The Jolly Corner: A Tale of New York.".
- catalog title "Henry James / Jeremy Tambling.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".