How one city's cultural tradition shaped American identity in the nineteenth century : essays on Henry James's The Bostonians (1886)
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How one city's cultural tradition shaped American identity in the nineteenth century : essays on Henry James's The Bostonians (1886)
Edwin Mellen Press, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Offers a comprehensive examination of Henry James' Boston connections.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction - Elaine Pigeon
- Part I - The Novel
- Henry James's Bostonians: The Power of Paradigm, the Power of Place - Gert Buelens
- Listening for Consciousness: Henry James, the vox Americana, and The Bostonians - Christopher J. Lukasik
- The Bostonians, or, Life Among the Bourgeoisie: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Olive Chancellor's House - Elaine Pigeon
- Part II - James's Realism
- The Other Bostonians: An 'Irish Yoke' in James's Boston Novel - Eoin Cannon
- A Sport of Nature: Reform Darwinism and The Bostonians - Andrew Scheiber
- 'Nobody Tells Fibs in Boston': The Newspaper and the Novel in The Bostonians - Sari Edelstein
- Part III - Boston as a State of Mind
- Boston at Sea: Dislocating the City in 'The Patagonia' - Anne-Claire LeReste
- Plunging Backward into Space: James's Boston and His Sense of His Past in The American Scene - Christine DeVine
- Part IV - Claiming Boston
- 'A great little personage': Henry James, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and the Boston Cultural Tradition - Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
- James, the Bostonian - Pierre A. Walker
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
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