Henry James's Feminist Afterlives
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-89107-1 (ISBN)
This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless share complex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history of feminist scholarly responses to their work. Kathryn Wichelns draws upon James' correspondence with Fields, as well as Dickinson's and Duras's revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of his project. By contextualizing his writing within a diverse set of feminist perspectives, each grounded in a specific time and place, as well as nineteenth-century views of queer male sexuality, Wichelns demonstrates the centrality of Henry James's ambivalent identifications with women tohis work.
Kathryn Wichelns is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
1 Introduction: On James, Mastery and Transgresion.- 2 "Those Who Know": Henry James and Annie Adams Fields.- 3 Emily Dickinson's Henry James.- 4 Henry James, French Feminist: Marguerite Duras's La Bête dans la jungle.- 5 Gender, Colonialism, and Italian Difference: Duras and The Aspern Papers.- 6 Conclusion: Towards a Queer Feminist James.
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.02.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
Zusatzinfo | XI, 178 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 259 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Annie Adams Fields • colonialism and Henry James • Feminist Literary Theory • Gender Studies • Henry James and Queer Theory • Henry James Travel Writing • Le Bete dans la jungle • lesbianism in Henry James • Portrait of a Lady • Post-Colonialism • post-World War II Paris • queer feminist • queer literary theory • The American Scene • The Aspern Papers • The Beast in the Jungle • The Bostonians • the europeans • Turn of the Screw • Wings of a Dove |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-89107-3 / 3319891073 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-89107-1 / 9783319891071 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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