Henry James and the imagination of pleasure /

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Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class socie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hadley, Tessa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Temas:
James, Henry, > 1843-1916 > Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry, > 1843-1916 > Thèmes, motifs.
James, Henry, > 1843-1916
James, Henry.
Imagination in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Plaisir dans la littérature.
Imagination dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Imagination in literature
Pleasure in literature
Erotik > Motiv
Vergnügen > Motiv
Verbeelding.
Genot.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
  • As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw'
  • 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
  • Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors
  • Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove
  • 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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