Henry James Against The Aesthetic Movement

Author : David Garrett Izzo,Daniel T. O’Hara
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786480043

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Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement by David Garrett Izzo,Daniel T. O’Hara Pdf

Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; he finally become a British subject near the end of his life. His status as a permanent outsider is responsible for the recurring themes in his writing dealing with European sophistication (decadence) compared to American lack of sophistication (or innocence). He is respected in modern times for his psychological insight, for being able to reveal his characters' deepest motivations. These 11 essays, along with an introduction and an afterword, examine James's work through the prism of the author's latest style. Topics the contributing authors address include the Henry James revival of the 1930s, three of James's male aesthetics, women in his works, literary forgery, and parallels with the career and views of Margaret Oliphant. Three essays delve into issues of representation in art and fiction, then three more explore decadence, identity and homosexuality.

Author : John Scholar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192594921

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Henry James and the Art of Impressions by John Scholar Pdf

Henry James criticized the impressionism that was revolutionizing French painting and fiction. He satirized the British aesthetic movement whose keystone was impressionist criticism. So why, time and again in important parts of his literary work, did James use the word 'impression'? Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that James tried to wrest the impression from the impressionists and to recast it in his own art of the novel. Interdisciplinary in its range, philosophical and literary in its focus, the book shows the place of James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism. It draws on painting, philosophy, psychology, literature, and critical theory to examine James's art criticism, early literary criticism, travel writing, reflections on his own fiction, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It shows how the language of impressions enables James to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters. It argues that the Jamesian impression is best understood as a family of related ideas bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel's value as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity.

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804721785

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Professions of Taste by Jonathan Freedman Pdf

The author traces Henry James's career-long encounter with the tradition of British aestheticism and places both in the context of the late-19th-century's professionalization and commodification of literary life. Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer genealogy of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role. This book aims to enlighten the reader's understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism.

Author : Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748697540

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Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture by Michele Mendelssohn Pdf

This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Author : Tomoko Eguchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443894111

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Ethical Aestheticism in the Early Works of Henry James by Tomoko Eguchi Pdf

This study re-locates the work of Henry James by revealing parallels between the aestheticism of John Ruskin and that of James. It explores a mix of well-known fictional texts alongside James’s essays and tales, which are less frequently analysed, but which, nevertheless, offer important insights into James’s attitude to his artistic method. Tracing James’s early development in comparison with Ruskin’s, this book also explores German Romantic thought and the idealism of Kant, Goethe and Hegel. While examining the German connections with James, this study is also alert to James’s relations with Walter Pater and French realism, to which James became increasingly close in the mid-1880s. Rather than placing James within one single category, it demonstrates how James interfused Romanticism and realism in establishing his own form of aestheticism. Shedding light on James’s period of apprenticeship, this book therefore articulates the Victorian concept of ‘aestheticism’ as used by James and Ruskin.

Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813919371

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The Forgotten Female Aesthetes by Talia Schaffer Pdf

Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the heretofore insufficiently recognized role that women such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, and others played in this influential late Victorian literary movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Daniel Hannah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317122562

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Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public by Daniel Hannah Pdf

Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.' Hannah challenges solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary impressionism, instead foregrounding James's treatment of the word 'impression' as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a breakdown between public and private at the end of the nineteenth century, James registers that breakdown not only as a threat but also as an opportunity for aesthetic gain. Beginning with a reading of 'The Art of Fiction' as both a public-forming essay and an aesthetic manifesto, Hannah's study examines James's responses to painterly impressionism and to aestheticism, and offers original readings of What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, and The American Scene that treat James's articulation of impressionism in relation to the child, the future of the novel, and shifts in the American national imaginary. Hannah's study persuasively argues that throughout his career James returns to impressionability not only as a site of immense vulnerability in an age of rapid change but also as a crucible for reshaping, challenging, and adapting to the public sphere’s shifting forms.

Author : Leon Chai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231072244

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Aestheticism by Leon Chai Pdf

Author : Elaine Pigeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135490195

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Queer Impressions by Elaine Pigeon Pdf

Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady, this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in particular, her Emersonian idealism. In order to expose Emerson's blind spot, a lacuna at the very centre of his New England Transcendentalism, James draws on the Gothic effects of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, thereby producing an intensification of Isabel Archer's psychological state and precipitating her awakening to a fuller, heightened consciousness. Thus Romanticism takes an aesthetic turn, becoming distinctly Paterian and unleashing queer possibilities that are further developed in James's subsequent fiction. This book follows the Paterian thread, leading to The Author of Beltraffio and Théophile Gauthier, and thereby establishing an important connection with French culture. Drawing on James's famous analogy between the art of fiction and the art of the painter, the book explores a possible link to the Impressionist painters associated with the literary circle Émile Zola dominated. It then turns to A New England Winter, a tale about an American Impressionist painter, and finds traces leading back to James's initiation prèmiere. The book closes with an exploration of the possible sources of Kate Croy's unspeakable father in The Wings of the Dove and proposes a possible intertext, one that provides direct insight into the Victorian closet.

Author : John Scholar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198853510

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Henry James and the Art of Impressions by John Scholar Pdf

Henry James criticized the impressionism movement, yet time and again used the word 'impressio' to represent his characters's consciousness, as well as the work of the literary artist. This book explores this anomaly, placing James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism.

Author : Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118492345

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A Companion to Henry James by Greg W. Zacharias Pdf

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James’s writings within national contexts—American, English, French, and Italian Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691129541

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Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks Pdf

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Author : Ben Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198767695

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Lateness and Modern European Literature by Ben Hutchinson Pdf

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors--from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valéry, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno--he combines close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.

Author : Melanie H. Ross,Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527561908

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Tracing Henry James by Melanie H. Ross,Greg W. Zacharias Pdf

Range and diversity are aims of Tracing Henry James, which brings together 28 essays by established and newer Henry James scholars from eight countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The essays are organized into an introductory section, a group of essays on Henry James’s shorter fiction, one on James’s longer fiction, one on The American Scene and James’s travel essays, one on James and criticism, and one on Henry James’s letters.

Author : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474443746

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Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907 by Giles Whiteley Pdf

Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century.