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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521563380

ISBN-139780521563383

eBay Product ID (ePID)937549

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Number of Pages300 Pages

Publication NameHenry James' Last Romance : Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Historical events, American / General, United States / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorBeverly Haviland

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

SeriesCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight21.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-043683

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"This contextualization of immigration establishes a new benchmark in interpreting James's sense of Americanness historically and expansively." Allan Hepburn, American Literature

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 110

Dewey Decimal813/.4

Table Of ContentIntroduction: at home: the reception of Henry James; Part I. Henry James's Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present; 2. The sense of a happy ending; Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce; 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and Thorstein Veblen; 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B. Du Bois; 6. The return of the alien: Ethnic identity and Jakob A. Riis; Part III. Patrimony and Matrimony: The Ivory Tower: 7. Heterosocial acts: the ambiguity of gender in the New World; 8. Odd couples: Henry James Senior and Jacques Lacan; 9. Irony makes love: Mrs Henry James and Washington, AC/DC.

SynopsisIn 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., In this major new study of Henry James' 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 his 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 paralyzing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between "natives" and "aliens," between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Haviland's own method brings historical and theoretical readings into conversation with each other., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS2127.H5 H38 1997