Crtitical Insights: Henry James / editor, Tom Hubbard, novelist and poet from Scotland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Critical insightsPublisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2016Edition: [First edition]Description: xv, 274 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781619258365
  • 1619258366
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 2124 .H434 2016
Contents:
About This Volume / Tom Hubbard. Labyrinth of Consciousness: On Henry James / Tom Hubbard -- The Importance of Being Henry: A Biographical Sketch / Tom Hubbard -- The Irishness of Henry James / Owen Dudley Edwards -- The Critical Reception of Henry James / Zsuzsanna Varga -- "Intensely American"? Henry James and Stephen Crane / Tom Hubbard -- "The Historian of Fine Consciences": Joseph Conrad on Henry James / Eric Haralson -- The Presence of the Past: Henry James's "The Last of the Valerii" as Opera / Michael Halliwell -- Contemporary Politics in The American / Pierre A. Walker -- Banks, Museums, and Convents: Institutional Encounters in The Portrait of a Lady / Donatella Izzo -- The Art of Fiction: Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson / Glenda Norquay -- Henry James's "Socialist Novel": The Princess Casamassima / Christopher Harvie -- Art and Nationalism: The Short Story "Collaboration" / Pierre A. Walker -- Two Tales of the 1890s, "The Altar of the Dead" and "Past": A Diptych-Essayette / Tom Hubbard -- Educating Miles: Thinking the Evil in The Turn of the Screw / Hazel Hutchison -- Blank Canvases: Henry James's Portraitists and the Limits of Analogy / Daniel Hannah -- A Native Gone Tourist? Henry James, Travel, and The American Scene / Carlo Martinez. Chronology of Henry James's Life.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.

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