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The trial of curiosity : Henry James, William James, and the challenge of modernity /
In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of bothbrothers, Posn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Master and Worm; Anarchist and Idiot
- The Trial of Curiosity
- Henry and William James and the Trial of Curiosity
- "On a Certain Blindness": Henry James and the Politics of Cultural Response
- "The Religion of Doing": Breaking the Aura of Henry James
- Abolishing the Logic of Identity: Contexts and Consequences
- The Challenge of Modernity
- "Adventures of the Critical Spirit": Rereading The American Scene
- "At the Active Pitch": Mimetic Selfhood in James's Autobiography
- Lifting the Yoke of the Genteel: Henry James, George Santayana, and Howard Sturgis
- Going to Smash: Violence in The Ambassadors
- "The Amazing Hotel-World": The American Scene of 1904
- Coda: The Politics of Nonidentity.