Download or read book A Superficial Reading of Henry James written by Thomas J. Otten and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the surfaces matter? In this provocative book, A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World, Thomas J. Otten demonstrates that surfaces matter profoundly. Taking seriously the accessories of Henry James's fiction-the china and bric-a-brac, the antique cabinets and tapestries, the ribbons and hats-this book argues that James's famous ambiguity is a material state, an indeterminate zone where the difference between essence and ornament disappears. Ranging between fictions as well-known as The Portrait of a Lady (whose heroine is celebrated for her psychological complexity) and ones as understudied as "Rose-Agathe" (whose heroine is a hairdresser's manikin), Otten suggests that the distinction between what counts as thematic depth and what counts as physical surface is, for James, impossible to maintain. Achieving a superficial reading of Henry James means demonstrating the persistence of the material within the novelist's most conceptual formations of meaning-an argument with important consequences for literary theory, as Otten shows in his concluding chapters. Eloquently written and guided by a perverse love for the superfluous detail, this book makes an important contribution to a fast-growing area of the humanities, one newly committed to the serious study of material culture, the concrete experiences of everyday life, and the history of the physical senses. Book jacket.

Download or read book A Superficial Reading of Henry James written by Thomas J. Otten and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rose Agathe 1878 written by Henry James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1878 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book Reading Henry James written by Louis Auchincloss and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Henry James in Context written by David McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.

Download or read book The Daily Henry James written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as: The Henry James Yearbook. Boston: Gorham Press, 1911, selected and arranged by Evelyn Garnaut Smalley, with an introduction by Henry James and William Dean Howells.

Download or read book The Novels of Henry James written by Elisabeth Luther Cary and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Notebooks of Henry James written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981-09-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For other novelists the value of Henry James's Notebooks is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."—V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman "The Notebooks take us into his study, and here we can observe him, at last, in the very act of creation at his writing table."—Leon Edel, Atlantic Monthly "A document of prime importance."—Edmund Wilson, New Yorker

Download or read book Reading Henry James written by Louis Auchincloss and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Uncollected Henry James written by Henry James and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously unpublished stories by Henry James presents stories James apparently published under pseudonyms that have been recently connected to the author.

Download or read book The Letters of Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Novels of Henry James written by Elisabeth Luther Cary and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II A Novelist with this strong sense of the poetic element in human nature, and with a tendency to let his imagination wander into the region of mysticism and to interrogate the soul rather than the mind, needs a strong counterbalance of interest in the exterior world to keep his feet firmly on the earth, and to provide for his characters a credible, tangible environment. In the case of Mr. James, this interest manifests itself as a notable, a truly remarkable, feeling for houses and their furnishings and surroundings, especially where they have the ingratiating touch of age, and an intimate association with the lives of their owners. He feels the genius of places, the inner life behind the outer aspect of ponderable things, and so closely adjusts his vision to fine discriminations in these that the places he knows and likes the best are a part of his drama, a part of the expression of his characters, and even, by a stretch of imagination, are in themselves characters, of an individuality not easily to be forgotten. In the earlier work they live chiefly, however, as a means of expression. The home of the Went- worths, for example, in The Europeans, is not only an admirable type of the dwellings of well-to-do Americans of the time and locality indicated, but in its clean, bare formality is precisely the harmonious setting for their serious, open lives: The doors and windows of the large squarehouse were all wide open, to admit the purifying sunshine, which lay in generous patches upon the floor of a wide, high, covered piazza adjusted to two sides of the mansion ?a piazza, on which several straw-bottomed rocking-chairs and half a dozen of those small cylindrical stools in green and blue porcelain, which suggest an affiliation between the residents and the Eastern trade, ..

Download or read book The American Scene written by Henry James and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Short Works of Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dear Munificent Friends written by Henry James and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished letters that shed light on the personal side of Henry James, and on the times in which he lived and wrote