Henry James: The Later Writing

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


Author: Barbara Hardy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 12/01/1996
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.32w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780746307489