The Cambridge Companion to Henry JamesJonathan Freedman Cambridge University Press, 1998 M05 28 - 256 pages The Cambridge Companion to Henry James is intended to provide a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, as a writer he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work. |
Contents
Men Women and the American Way | 21 |
The James Family Theatricals Behind the Scenes | 40 |
Henry James at Work The Question of Our Texts | 63 |
Henry James and the Invention of Novel Theory | 79 |
Henry James and the Idea of Evil | 102 |
Queer Henry In the Cage | 120 |
The Unmentionable Subject in The Pupil | 139 |
Realism Culture and the Place of the Literary Henry James and The Bostonians | 151 |
Lambert Strethers Excellent Adventure | 169 |
Jamess Elusive Wings | 187 |
Henry Jamess American Dream in The Golden Bowl | 204 |
Affirming the Alien The Pragmatist Pluralism of The American Scene | 224 |
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