Henry James and the father question /
"The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James's writing responds to James Senior's epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
129. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James's writing responds to James Senior's epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and relocates these concerns in a more secularised and cosmopolitan cultural milieu. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Taylor's study reveals the complex and at times antagonistic dialogue between the elder James and his peers, particularly Emerson and Whitman, in the vanguard of mid nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how this dialogue anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood."--Jacket |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index. |
ISBN: | 0511018959 9780511018954 0511156839 9780511156830 0511119844 9780511119842 9780511485688 0511485689 9780511044397 0511044399 9780521120715 0521120713 |