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Performing the everyday in Henry James's late novels /
Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Performing the Everyday, Face to Face, in Henry James; 1 Wanting to Want to Be Straight and Right: Strether's Liberation in The Ambassadors; 2 The Stigmatized and the Normals: Milly, Densher, and Kate's Survival in The Wings of the Dove; 3 Intimacy and Sexuality: Challenging the Official Story of Maggie Verver in The Golden Bowl; 4 Teams, Teammates, and Intimacy: The Unofficial Story of Maggie Verver in The Golden Bowl; Conclusion: Civility, Freedom, and Morality in Henry James; Bibliography; Index.