A companion to Henry James studies
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A companion to Henry James studies
Greenwood Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [495]-520
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Twenty leading Jamesians, in chapters written especially for this reference volume, canvas all areas of Henry James studies, including James's own criticism and critical theory, his novels, tales, plays, travel writings, notebooks, letters, and autobiographies, and his critical reception. Also featured are two appendixes comprising annotated chronologies, one of James's principal publications in book form, the other of landmarks of James criticism and scholarship. The first section, on criticism and theory, opens with a concise overview of criticism on Henry James. The central section of the volume is devoted to James's fiction, from the early years, middle years, the experimental period, and the later fiction, including the short stories. Additional writings focus on special topics, including comparison of James with his European peers, a study of James from a feminist view, an assessment of James's use of the visual arts, and an analysis of James's many revisions of his own works. A section on James's nonfiction includes his epistolary art, his travel book English Hours, his drama, and the social commentary in James's account of his return to America from an expatriate life abroad in The American Scene. The scholars draw upon nearly seven hundred books and articles, which are compiled in a list of works cited.
Itself a companion to Robert Gale's A Henry James Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 1989), A Companion to Henry James Studies is a carefully structured survey of scholarship, designed as a library reference volume that will be of interest and value to students and scholars of Henry James and specialists in American literature generally.
Table of Contents
- Introduction by Daniel Mark Fogel Criticism and Theory From Literary Analysis to Postmodern Theory: A Historical Narrative of James Criticism by Richard A. Hocks. James as Critic and Self-Critic by Sarah B. Daugherty James's Theory of Fiction and Its Legacy by Daniel R. Schwarz The Prefaces by Thomas M. Leitch Henry James and Critical Theory by John Carlos Rowe Henry James's Fiction The Early Years by James W. Tuttleton The Middle Years by James W. Gargano The Experimental Period by Jean Frantz Blackall The Later Fiction by Virginia Fowler How Long Is Long
- How Short Short! Henry James and the Small Circular Frame by Maqbool Aziz A Round of Visits: James Among Some European Peers by Philip M. Weinstein Closure in James: A Formalist Feminist View by Mary Doyle Springer The Art in the Fiction of Henry James by Adeline R. Tintner James's Revisions by Anthony J. Mazzella Henry James's Non-Fiction On the Use of James's Notebooks by Lyall H. Powers The Epistolary Art of Henry James by Darshan Singh Maini Henry James's English Hours: Private Spaces and the Aesthetics of Enclosure by Bonney MacDonald Henry James the Dramatist by Susan Carlson The Autobiographies: A History of Readings by Carol Holly The Duality of the American Scene by Charles Caramello List of Works Cited Appendix 1: An Annotated Chronology of Henry James's Principal Publications In Book Form Appendix 2: Landmarks of Henry James Criticism Index
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