Download or read book The James Family a Group Biography Together with Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James Senior William Henry Alice James written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The James Family written by F.O. Matthiessen and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of the extraordinary nineteenth-century American family recounts their reactions to one another, to contemporary writers and thinkers, and to major issues in American cultural history, tracing the lives and careers of Henry James, Sr., philosopher William James, influential author Henry James, and Alice James.
Download or read book The James Family written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The James Family Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James Senior William Henry and Alice James written by F. O. Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House of Wits written by Paul Fisher and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American odyssey that reveals the fascinating complexities of one of history's most brilliant, eccentric, and daring families The James family, one of America's most memorable dynasties, gave the world three famous children: a novelist of genius (Henry), an influential philosopher (William), and an invalid (Alice) who became a feminist icon, despite her sheltered life and struggles with mental illness. Although much has been written on them, many truths about the Jameses have long been camouflaged. The conflicts that defined one of American's greatest families— homosexuality, depression, alcoholism, female oppression—can only now be thoroughly investigated and discussed with candor and understanding. Paul Fisher's grand family saga, House of Wits, rediscovers a family traumatized by the restrictive standards of their times but reaching out for new ideas and ways to live. He follows the five James offspring ("hotel children," Henry called them) and their parents through their privileged travels across the Atlantic; interludes in Newport and Cambridge; the younger boys' engagement in the Civil War; and William and Henry's later adventures in London, Paris, and Italy. He captures the splendor of their era and all the members of the clan—beginning with their mercurial father, who nurtured, inspired, and damaged them, setting the stage for lives of colorful passions, intense rivalries, and extraordinary achievements. House of Wits is a revealing cultural history that revises and completes our understanding of its remarkable protagonists and the changing world where they came of age.
Download or read book The James Family written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The James Family written by F. O. Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alice James written by Jean Strouse and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking philosophical and psychological works, have won these brothers a permanent place at the center of the nation’s cultural firmament. Less well known is their enigmatic younger sister, Alice. As Jean Stouse’s generous, probing, and deeply imaginative biography shows, however, Alice James was a fascinating and exceptional figure in her own right. Tortured throughout her short life by an array of nervous disorders, constrained by social convention from achieving the worldly success she so desired, Alice nevertheless emerges from this remarkable book as a personality every bit as peculiar and engaging as her two famous brothers. “The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science,” writes Strouse, “Alice simply lived.” With a psychological penetration and high eloquence that are altogether Jamesian, Strouse traces the formation of a unique identity, from Alice’s unconventional peripatetic childhood in continental Europe through her years of spinsterhood in the United Sates and later England. It was there that she began to keep her celebrated diary, full of fitting social observation and unblinking self-analysis. “I consider myself one of the most potent creations of my time,” she wrote to William, with characteristic tartness, towards the end of her life, “and though I may not have a group of Harvard students sitting at my feet drinking in psychic truth, I shall not tremble, I assure you, at the last trump.”
Download or read book Henry James Family written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary Of Alice James written by Alice James and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unknown sister of novelist Henry James, Jr. shows herself to be a formidable individual in her own right.
Download or read book William and Henry James written by William James and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single-volume distillation of the exchange between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Spanning more than fifty years, their correspondence presents a lively account of the persons, places, and events that affected the Euro-American world from 1861 until the death of William James in August 1910. An engaging introduction by John J. McDermott suggests the significance of the Selected Letters for the study of the entire family.
Download or read book Alice James Her Brothers Her Journal written by Alice James and published by . This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book Biography of Broken Fortunes written by Jane Maher and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Family Papers written by James Family and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence and papers of Henry James Jr., William James, Alice James, and Henry James II. Includes a diary of Henry James Jr. and 2 etchings and 10 photographs related to the James family.
Download or read book The James Family written by and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The James Family written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William James s Pluralism written by Wayne Viney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William James’s Pluralism: An Antidote for Contemporary Extremism and Absolutism explores extremism and the related problem of absolutism in the context of the psychology and philosophy of William James. Extremist and absolutist views were topical in James’s day, especially around the time of the Civil War, but they are no less common in these early years of the 21st century. James argued that the love of singularities such as belief in one God, one method, one political system, or one value system contributes to extremist, even violent mentalities. In this book, James’s views on singular versus pluralistic perspectives are explored and then applied to contemporary practical issues such as abortion, birth control, and death with dignity legislation. These perspectives are furthermore applied to more theoretical issues, such as causality, values, and methods or ways of investigating the world. Within William James’s Pluralism, these theories are investigated in a comprehensive philosophical and psychological examination of the human experience. Written in a nontechnical manner to appeal to the general public—just as William James hoped for his pluralistic philosophy—this book is additionally of considerable interest to academics and students across many fields such as psychology, philosophy, history, and sociology.
