Henry James on culture : collected essays on politics and the American social scene
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Henry James on culture : collected essays on politics and the American social scene
University of Nebraska Press, c1999
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Henry James on Culture" is a collection of eighteen articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. Eight of them have never before been published in book form, and the remainder have not, until now, been easily accessible. These essays reveal a previously neglected side of James. Some of the writings concern British imperial politics and crises in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and South Africa. Others were written during and after James's 1904-5 tour of the United States. They focus on questions of gender and manners and complement the best-known work resulting from that trip, The American Scene. Also included is James's only publication on religion and metaphysics, "Is There a Life after Death?". It presents James's view of the possibility of an afterlife and is also interesting in the light of work by his philosopher brother and his theologian father on the same subject. Finally, the book groups for the first time in one volume all of James's writings on the First World War. Deeply affected by the war's outbreak, James wrote touching and profound essays on the meaning of the war to the world he knew.
These articles are among the great works of First World War literature. Pierre A. Walker is an associate professor of English at Salem State College. He is the co-general editor of "The Complete Letters of Henry James" (Nebraska forthcoming).
Table of Contents
- Contents Acknowledgements
- Introduction PART I Essays about British Geopolitics, 1878-1879 The British Soldier The Afghan Difficulty Review of Graf Bismarck und seine Leute wahrend des Krieges mit Frankreich. Nach Tagebuchsblattern, by Moritz Busch The Early Meeting of Parliament The Reassembling of Parliament PART II Essays on Gender and the American Scene, 1904-1907 Henry James in the Serene Sixties The Question of Our Speech The Speech of American Women The Manners of American Women PART III metaphysical Essay, 1910 Is there Life After Death? PART IV Writings on World War I, 1914-1917 The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance corps in France Henry James's First Interview France The Question of the Mind Allen D. Loney - In Memoriam Refugees in England The Long Wards Within the Rim Explanatory notes
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- Emendations
- Bibliography
- Index
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