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Henry James and "Coterie-Literature"
Henry James is often regarded as an author of ‘coterie-literature’: someone who wrote only for and about elites. This dissertation argues that such interpretations neglect some of the complexities and ambivalences within his attitudes towards exclusion and exclusivity. My first chapter analyses the …
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Henry James and the moral will
… but to contribute still another treatise on Henry James to the profuse analyses which already exist might seem sheer arrogance. I am not, however, so bold as to claim that the following study blazes with originality. It does offer, I think, more precise insights into James’s moral …
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'The Auditive Intelligence': Intonation in Henry James
… the ‘auditive intelligence’ in the work of Henry James, but it does so by first recognising some of the theoretical and historical obstacles that lie in the way of such a recovery. Structural linguistics has been responsible for encouraging the assumption that there are no better or worse …
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Narrative strategies in selected novels of Henry James
In the course of Henry James's novelistic career, his works reveal an increasing emphasis on the representation of consciousness. This is reflected in a modulation from the authorial to the figural mode of narration as the novels are more consistently focalized through the consciousness of one or …
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Henry James in the Debate on an American Literature
… literary critic during most of his career. Henry James believed literary criticism the cumulative and cuminative literary art. As a "compromise between the philosopher and the historian," James wrote, the literary critic "should unite in himself the qualities which are required for success …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… of inner life.</p> <p>Using Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Woolf as case studies, my work identifies radical interiority in British novels of different periods—the Gothic underpinnings of the mid-Victorian marriage plot, the psychological verisimilitude of late nineteenth-century realism, …
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Conjecture on the Failure of Henry James as a Dramatist
Henry James was a very complex personality. In consequence, his career shows many facets. Only a few of these facets, however, are familiar to the reading public; and among these brightly shining points of this literary star is one which glimmers but faintly--his attempt to write drama.|There were …
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Henry James and the Pragmatic Assumption: The Conditions of Perception
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The hotel in fiction from Henry James to Henry Green
… its exuberant and anxious rise in the novels of Henry James and the decline of its cultural pre-eminence in Henry Green's Party Going. It argues that the hotel constituted corporate space, financed by limited liability companies and operated by an alienated workforce. Hotels offered a rare and …
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Telepathy and the Visual in the Late Novels of Henry James
… in the psychologically complex late novels of Henry James, with particular focus on The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904). It acknowledges that significant research has been done into telepathy (Thurschwell 2001; Luckhurst 2002) and the visual (Crary …
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Sympathetic Observations: Widowhood, Spectatorship, and Sympathy in the Fiction of Henry James
… explores the roles of widowhood and sympathy in Henry James's short and long fiction. By the time James established himself as a writer of fiction, the culture of sentiment and its formation of sympathetic identification had become central to American and British writers. Critically, however, …
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Henry James: the texture of language in the later novels, 1897-1901
… ten years ago by an English biographer of James: "Most wrong views of James are the result of insufficient attachment to his text, and to the habit of abstracting from it themes and morals instead of responding to its tone. The tone of his later books is the tone of the emotional and …
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The Ordeal of The American Girl: Female Initiation in Henry James' Fiction
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
… the First World War and the Second World War – Henry James (1843-1916), Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) – this thesis takes up the unexplored influence of ‘unlived lives’ on the form and content of twentieth century literature, and examines how each of these writers …
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The functions of language in the early tales of Henry James: 1864-1872
… to examine the nineteen earliest tales of Henry James as artistic experiments in the manipulation of language. Accordingly, my work represents a creative, rather than a scholarly treatment of the subject, an approach particularly warranted by the paucity of imaginative critical effort …
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"""Accessory Invalids"" and the ""Central Figure"": Illness in the Works of Henry James"
Henry James portrayed a great deal of illness in his fiction, and his portrayal shows his recognition of the illnesses of the day, as well as the medical theories of the day. James's presentation of nervous illnesses, febrile illness, tuberculosis, and insanity all conform to theories that …
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