Henry James'' Last Romance - Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

Klappentext A study of Henry James's classic work of cultural criticism! The American Scene. Zusammenfassung In this 1998 study of Henry James's classic text of cultural criticism! The American Scene! and two unfinished novels! Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. Haviland follows James's interpretative practice by bringing historical and theoretical readings into conversation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: at home: the reception of Henry James; Part I. Henry James's Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present; 2. The sense of a happy ending; Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce; 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and Thorstein Veblen; 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B. Du Bois; 6. The return of the alien: Ethnic identity and Jakob A. Riis; Part III. Patrimony and Matrimony: The Ivory Tower: 7. Heterosocial acts: the ambiguity of gender in the New World; 8. Odd couples: Henry James Senior and Jacques Lacan; 9. Irony makes love: Mrs Henry James and Washington, AC/DC.

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• Authors: Beverly Haviland, Beverly (State University of New York Haviland
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.1997
• EAN: 9780521563383
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56338-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies