Henry James

Author(s)

• Tanner, Tony

Bibliographic Information

Henry James

by Tony Tanner

（Bibliographical series of supplements to "British book news" on writers and their work, 269-271）

Published for the British Council by Longman Group, 1979-1981

• 1. 1843-1881
• 2. 1882-1898
• 3. 1899-1916

Note

Bibliography: v. 1, p. 53-59, v. 2, p. 52-58, v. 3, p. 40-46

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1. 1843-1881 ISBN 9780582012738

Description

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred Fount, the great ghost-story, The Jolly Corner and other tales, autobiography, travel and the influential criticism. She has been writing about James since the fifties and draws on long experience of teaching James - to addicts, hostile parodists, and persevering fiction-lovers fascinated by a demandingly extravagant and original novelist. She offers new readings of the major novels, and revaluation of the literary criticism in the context of later ideas, which James's theory and practice anticipate. Her close analysis traces generative imaging-making and reflexive story-telling, following two dominant and complementary themes, the social construction of character, and creative imagination: James dramatises the power of environment, to dismiss essentialism and ask the key question 'What shall we call the self?'; and he is a disturbing analyst of inner life, catching its fantasies, revisions, and speculations in self-referential language. This study of the most innovative of Victorian and Edwardian novelists will interest new and old Jamesians, novel-readers and students at all levels.

Volume

2. 1882-1898 ISBN 9780582012813

Description

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

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Details

• NCID: BA20391593
• ISBN:
  • 0582012732
  • 0582012813
  • 085383508X
• LCCN: 80464992
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harlow, Essex
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS2124
  • DC : 813/.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03989071