New Essays on the American

This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects Henry James' novel The American.

List of contents

Series editor's preface; 1. Introduction Martha Banta; 2. The turn of The American Peter Brooks; 3. The politics of innocence in Henry James's The American John Carlos Rowe; 4. Gender and Value in The American Carolyn Porter; 5. Physical capital: The American and the realist body Mark Seltzer; Selected bibliography.

Summary

The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of the novel.

Product details

• Assisted by: Martha Banta (Editor), Emory Elliot (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521307307
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30730-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies