New essays on The American
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New essays on The American
(The American novel / general editor, Emory Elliott)
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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New essays on James's The American
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Note
Bibliography: p. 171-172
Description and Table of Contents
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The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of the novel: the French literary influences on James as he gravitated between the genres of the romantic and the realistic novel; the many-layered French political scene that he incorporated into the novel; the complex gender roles of his characters; and the pervasive effect of capitalism upon them.
Table of Contents
- Series editor's preface
- 1. Introduction Martha Banta
- 2. The turn of The American Peter Brooks
- 3. The politics of innocence in Henry James's The American John Carlos Rowe
- 4. Gender and Value in The American Carolyn Porter
- 5. Physical capital: The American and the realist body Mark Seltzer
- Selected bibliography.
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