The Catholic side of Henry James
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The Catholic side of Henry James
（Cambridge studies in American literature and culture）
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c1993
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Originally published: 1993
"This digitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The Catholic Side of Henry James reveals the profound Catholic imagery in the work of Henry James. Edwin Fussell questions conventional critical assumptions about James' secularity and shows that James' career began with narratives of Catholic conversion and ended with his masterpiece of Catholic eccentricity and alienation, The Golden Bowl. The interplay of men and women, of America and Europe - those acknowledged Jamesian themes - comes to be overlaid with the interplay between Protestant and Catholic. Fussell's examination ranges from James' early reviews of religious books for the Nation and early tales like 'De Grey: A Romance' through much of the canon, along the way re-examining James' overlooked play Guy Domville and climaxing with a magnificent reading of The Golden Bowl, convincingly demonstrating James' involvement with Catholic themes.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Calendar: chief items of Catholic interest in Henry James
- Documentation
- Part I. Bibliographical Leads, Historical Considerations
- Part II. Representing Catholicity: 1. The Protestant base
- 2. Liberalism
- 3. The picturesque
- 4. The question of religious audience
- 5. Sacred seculars in the tales
- 6. Sacred seculars: novel, letter, and notebook
- 7. Death and literary form
- Part III. The Narratives of Catholic Conversion: 1. Watch and Ward (1871)
- 2. Italian sketches and Italian tales (1870-5)
- 3. Roderick Hudson (1875)
- 4. The American (1876-7)
- 5. Attenuations: The Reverberator (1888)
- 6. Supersubtlety one: What Maisie Knew (1897)
- 7. Supersubtlety two: The Turn of the Screw (1898)
- Part IV. Pas de quatre: 1. Catholicity neat: 'Gabrielle de Bergerac' (1869)
- 2. Secularizing Catholicity: 'The Altar of the Dead' (1895)
- 3. Protestantizing Catholicity: 'The Great Good Place' (1900)
- 4. Satirizing secularity: 'The Birthplace (1903)
- Part V. The Catholic Menage as Literary Space: 1. 'De Grey: A Romance' (1868)
- 2. Guy Domville (1893, 1895)
- 3. The Golden Bowl (1904): the crown of his career
- Part VI. 'Prove that I'm Not!' - Toward the Impossibility of Interpretation
- Notes
- Index.
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