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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1998-12-01
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780822321477
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822321475
ISBN-13
9780822321477
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1037221
Product Key Features
Book Title
Other Henry James
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Women, General, American / General, Lgbt, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Literary Criticism
Book Series
New Americanists Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-018977
Reviews
"Daring and dazzling in scope, John Carlos Rowe's brilliant readings create the makings of an alternative canon for James's career, one more suitable to our time."-Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University, "Daring and dazzling in scope, John Carlos Rowe's brilliant readings create the makings of an alternative canon for James's career, one more suitable to our time." Daniel T. O'Hara Temple University, "Daring and dazzling in scope, John Carlos Rowe's brilliant readings create the makings of an alternative canon for James's career, one more suitable to our time."--Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813
Table Of Content
Contents Preface Introduction: Henry James and Critical Theory Chapter 1. Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" Chapter 2. A Phantom of the Opera: Christopher Newman's Unconscious in The American Chapter 3. Acting Lessons: Racial, Sexual, and Aesthetic Politics in The Tragic Muse Chapter 4. Textual Preference: James's Literary Defenses against Sexuality in "The Middle Years" and "The Death of the Lion" Chapter 5. The Portrait of a Small Boy as a Young Girl: Gender Trouble in What Maisie Knew Chapter 6. Spectral Mechanics: Gender, Sexuality, and Work in In the Cage Conclusion: Henry James and the Art of Teaching Notes Index
Synopsis
In The Other Henry James , John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most fruitful approach to James today is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master in favor of the writer as a vulnerable critic of his own confused and repressive historical moment. Rowe traces a particular development in James's work, showing how in his early writings James criticized women's rights, same-sex relations, and other social and political trends now identified with modern culture; how he ambivalently explored these aspects of modernity in his writings of the 1880s; and, later, how he increasingly identified with such modernity in his heretofore largely ignored or marginally treated fiction of the 1890s. Building on recent scholarship that has shown James to be more anxious about gender roles, more conflicted, and more marginal a figure than previously thought, Rowe argues that James-through his treatment of women, children, and gays-indicts the values and conventions of the bourgeoisie. He shows how James confronts social changes in gender roles, sexual preferences, national affiliations, and racial and ethnic identifications in such important novels as The American , The Tragic Muse , What Maisie Knew , and In the Cage , and in such neglected short fiction as "The Last of the Valerii," "The Death of the Lion," and "The Middle Years." Positioning James's work within an interpretive context that pits the social and political anxieties of his day against the imperatives of an aesthetic ideology, The Other Henry James will engage scholars, students, and teachers of American literature and culture, gay literature, and queer theory., In The Other Henry James , John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most fruitful approach to James today is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master in favor of the writer as a vulnerable critic of his own confused and repressive historical moment. Rowe traces a particular development in James's work, showing how in his early writings James criticized women's rights, same-sex relations, and other social and political trends now identified with modern culture; how he ambivalently explored these aspects of modernity in his writings of the 1880s; and, later, how he increasingly identified with such modernity in his heretofore largely ignored or marginally treated fiction of the 1890s. Building on recent scholarship that has shown James to be more anxious about gender roles, more conflicted, and more marginal a figure than previously thought, Rowe argues that James--through his treatment of women, children, and gays--indicts the values and conventions of the bourgeoisie. He shows how James confronts social changes in gender roles, sexual preferences, national affiliations, and racial and ethnic identifications in such important novels as The American , The Tragic Muse , What Maisie Knew , and In the Cage , and in such neglected short fiction as "The Last of the Valerii," "The Death of the Lion," and "The Middle Years." Positioning James's work within an interpretive context that pits the social and political anxieties of his day against the imperatives of an aesthetic ideology, The Other Henry James will engage scholars, students, and teachers of American literature and culture, gay literature, and queer theory., Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.
LC Classification Number
PS2127
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