Prepossessing Henry James - The Strange Freedom

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens.

List of contents

Chapter 1: APOPHRADES. The Return of the Dead: Notes on Belated Freedom
Chapter 2: ASKESIS. The Imaginary Value: Parables of the Bastard Son from Hamlet to The Princess Casamassima
Chapter 3: DAEMONIZATION. The Strange Freedom: The Turn of the Screw and the Pamela Controversy
Chapter 4: TESSERA. The Enthusiasm of Liberty: Martyrdom and Ascension in The Wings of the Dove
Chapter 5: KENOSIS. Friendly Hints, Tangled Clued: Rewriting Thackeray in The Ambassadors
Chapter 6. CLINAMEN. Swerving from Dickens: Individuation in The Ivory Tower

About the author

Julián Jiménez Heffernan (Ph.D. Bologna, Italy) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. He has authored three books on Shakespeare, co-edited the collection Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2013), and published many essays on Renaissance philosophy, deconstruction, and modern fiction—from Samuel Richardson to Nadine Gordimer. He is currently working on a book on Karl Marx and William Thackeray.

Summary

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Jimenez Heffernan, Julián Jiménez Heffernan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032058665
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3205866-5
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers