Henry James'' Last Romance : Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene
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Hardback or Cased Book
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0521563380
ISBN-13
9780521563383
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 28th, 1997
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
565 grams
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22.90 x 15.20 x 2.10 cms
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In this 1998 study of Henry James's classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, and two unfinished novels, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. Haviland follows James's interpretative practice by bringing historical and theoretical readings into conversation.
In this 1998 study of Henry James's classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. In this record of James's 1904–5 return to America and in his unfinished novels, The Sense of the Past and The Ivory Tower, he interpreted the social conflicts that seemed to be paralysing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between 'natives' and 'aliens', between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Although James has been represented as conservative by liberal critics, it is just such simplifying oppositions that his method of interpretation works to transform. Haviland's own metonymical method follows James's interpretative practice by bringing historical and theoretical readings of these texts into conversation with each other.
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