Transforming Henry James

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4614-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 470 Seiten

Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James’s fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James’s life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work’s textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultural issues, such as gender and sexuality, economics, friendship and hospitality, and visual culture. Arranged under rubrics which signal the complex interrelations of Henry James as a historical individual and of the works he authored with a web of social, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses, the contributions collected in this book make a convincing case for the ongoing productivity of James’s oeuvre when interrogated from new critical angles and, therefore, for its enduring centrality to the concerns of literary and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Despotopoulo, Anna u, Donatella

Biasio, Anna De

Izzo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Über Autor(innen)

Anna De Biasio is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She has written essays on a number of nineteenth-century American authors and is the author of Romanzi e musei: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James e il rapporto con l’arte (2006), a study of the rise of museums, tourism, and the “art novel” in the US.

Anna Despotopoulou is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Athens, Greece. She is the co-editor of Henry James and the Supernatural (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Reconstructing Pain and Joy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) and author of several articles on Henry James and nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors.

Donatella Izzo is Professor of American Literature at “L’Orientale” University, Naples, Italy. A former President of the Henry James Society, she is the author of Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) and of several other books and essays.