The Trial of Curiosity : Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity
by
Posnock
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0195071247
ISBN-13
9780195071245
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 5th, 1991
Print length
382 Pages
Weight
562 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
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In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of both brothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of cultural and intellectual affiliations comprised of a host of American and European theorists of modernity. A startlingly new Henry James emerges from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, which features Veblen, Santayana, Bourne, and Dewey, as well as Weber, Simmel, Benjamin, and Adorno.
This study integrates literary and biographical criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life of two of America's most luminous intellectual figures. The central premise is that to contextualize the novelist inevitably involves assessing his relationship with his elder brother, William, and the study reveals how the psychological and cultural components of the Henry/William relation reciprocally interact. Posnock provides a new way to think about the relation of the brothers to each other and to their larger cultural moment: the challenge and trauma of early twentieth-century modernity.
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