Culture and Criticism in Henry James

Culture and Criticism in Henry James
Author: Dietmar Schloss
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1992
Genre: Civilization in literature
ISBN: 9783823350224

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Henry James on Culture

Henry James on Culture
Author: Henry James
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780803276192

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This text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.

Henry James and the Culture of Publicity

Henry James and the Culture of Publicity
Author: Richard Salmon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1997-10-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521562492

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This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.

The Art of Criticism

The Art of Criticism
Author: Henry James
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1986-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226391973

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A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--P. [4] of cover.

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Author: Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748697543

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This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Henry James's Europe

Henry James's Europe
Author: Dennis Tredy
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1906924368

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As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.

Henry James' Last Romance

Henry James' Last Romance
Author: Beverly Haviland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521109963

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In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. In this record of his 1904-5 return to America and in his unfinished novels, The Sense of the Past and The Ivory Tower, he interpreted the social conflicts that seemed to be paralyzing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between "natives" and "aliens," between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Haviland's own method brings historical and theoretical readings into conversation with each other.

Henry James and the Culture of Consumption

Henry James and the Culture of Consumption
Author: Miranda El-Rayess
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107039053

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This book focuses on Henry James's engagement with the fast-developing consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James

Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James
Author: Alwyn Berland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1981-04-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521233437

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Analyzing Henry James' conception of civilization as culture and the relationship of this conception to his major works, Berland argues that James brought to his fiction the moral commitment that characterized a Puritan New England and a dedication to the aesthetic culture he found in England and in Europe. He concludes that these commitments provide James with his major themes, characters and fictional techniques and the two immutable Jamesian laws : Europe is better than America, but Americans are better than Europeans.