Crtitical Insights: Henry James /

Crtitical Insights: Henry James / editor, Tom Hubbard, novelist and poet from Scotland. - [First edition]. - xv, 274 pages ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.

About This Volume / Labyrinth of Consciousness: On Henry James / The Importance of Being Henry: A Biographical Sketch / The Irishness of Henry James / The Critical Reception of Henry James / "Intensely American"? Henry James and Stephen Crane / "The Historian of Fine Consciences": Joseph Conrad on Henry James / The Presence of the Past: Henry James's "The Last of the Valerii" as Opera / Contemporary Politics in The American / Banks, Museums, and Convents: Institutional Encounters in The Portrait of a Lady / The Art of Fiction: Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson / Henry James's "Socialist Novel": The Princess Casamassima / Art and Nationalism: The Short Story "Collaboration" / Two Tales of the 1890s, "The Altar of the Dead" and "Past": A Diptych-Essayette / Educating Miles: Thinking the Evil in The Turn of the Screw / Blank Canvases: Henry James's Portraitists and the Limits of Analogy / A Native Gone Tourist? Henry James, Travel, and The American Scene / Tom Hubbard. Tom Hubbard -- Tom Hubbard -- Owen Dudley Edwards -- Zsuzsanna Varga -- Tom Hubbard -- Eric Haralson -- Michael Halliwell -- Pierre A. Walker -- Donatella Izzo -- Glenda Norquay -- Christopher Harvie -- Pierre A. Walker -- Tom Hubbard -- Hazel Hutchison -- Daniel Hannah -- Carlo Martinez. Chronology of Henry James's Life.

From the novels The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady to his extensive literary criticism, Henry James is recognized today as one of the central novelists and proponents of 19th-century realism. Original essays in this volume analyze the importance of James work to his contemporaries, the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne in his writing, and his failed theatrical career. -- Amazon.

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James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Criticism and interpretation.


American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century

PS 2124 / .H434 2016