Generous Mistakes - Incidents of Error in Henry James

Informationen zum Autor Michael Anesko is Professor of English and American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught since 1993. Before that he served as Assistant (and, then, Associate) Professor of History and Literature and of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which, Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012. He is also a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and The Complete Letters of Henry James (University of Nebraska Press). Klappentext Michael Anesko explores Henry James's efforts to correct 'mistakes' that he later perceived in his books as first printed. He focuses on two of Henry James's most important texts, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Ambassadors (1903), and the ways in which both betray (in very peculiar ways) the fallibility of James himself. Zusammenfassung Michael Anesko explores Henry James's efforts to correct 'mistakes' that he later perceived in his books as first printed. He focuses on two of Henry James's most important texts, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Ambassadors (1903), and the ways in which both betray (in very peculiar ways) the fallibility of James himself. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Textual Monuments / Crumbling Idols: The Material Form of Jamesian Fallibility II: Self-Reluctance: The Alienated Modesty of Henry James's Rejected Thoughts III: The Infinite Hope of Never Doing Anything Wrong IV: The Textual Condition of The Ambassadors: A Revised Scenario V: 'A Kind of Inevitability': (Mis)reading Types in The Ambassadors VI: My Fair Henry ?!

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• Authors: Michael Anesko, Michael (Pennsylvania State University) Anesko, Anesko Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2017
• EAN: 9780198794882
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879488-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form