Delicate Pursuit : Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton

Name: Delicate Pursuit
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415938600
Price: 30950 KES
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ISBN: 9780415938600

by Jessica Levine

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Format Hardback

Book Series Studies in Major Literary Authors

ISBN-10 0415938600

ISBN-13 9780415938600

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 30th, 2002

Print length 250 Pages

Weight 476 grams

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Ethical issues: censorship / freedom of expression Ethical issues: censorship

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This work explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century and how they pursued 'discretion', in order to avoid censorship.

Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued discretion, the key concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion marks not only the author''s relationship to their subject matter but also the behavior of the characters in the fiction.
This study takes into particular account the influence of the French literary tradition on these two authors. At the crossroads of the new freedom of expression opened up by French realism and the persisting puritanical standards of their American audiences, James and Wharton sough safe ways to address adult sexuality, and the French theme of adulterous love in particular.

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