Henry James And Queer Modernity

Author : Eric Haralson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139436113

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Henry James and Queer Modernity by Eric Haralson Pdf

In Henry James and Queer Modernity, first published in 2003, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his 'major phase' at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of 'queer' characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author.

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Homosexuality and literature
ISBN : 6610161267

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Henry James and Queer Modernity by Eric L. Haralson Pdf

In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his 'major phase' at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of 'queer' characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author.

Author : Elaine Pigeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135490126

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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 : Michael Anesko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319945385

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Henry James and Queer Filiation by Michael Anesko Pdf

This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite figures — most now forgotten or unknown — offer even more suggestive evidence of some of the countervailing forms of social practice that could survive even in that hostile era. If these men enjoyed such exemption largely because of the prerogatives of class privilege, their relative freedom was nevertheless a visible rebuke to the reductive stereotypes of homosexuality that circulated and were reinforced in the culture of the period. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of Henry James and queer studies, readers of late Victorian and modern literature, and those interested in the history and social construction of gender roles.

Author : Eric L. Haralson,Kendall Johnson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438117270

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Critical Companion to Henry James by Eric L. Haralson,Kendall Johnson Pdf

Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

Author : Elaine Pigeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415975336

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Queer Impressions by Elaine Pigeon Pdf

British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence.

Author : Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : P. Rawlings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288881

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Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies by P. Rawlings Pdf

This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories of narrative and architecture, James' letters, money and globalization.

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139493383

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The Nets of Modernism by Maud Ellmann Pdf

One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to 'vampirism' and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture. Subtle, original and a pleasure to read, this 2010 book offers a fresh perspective on the inter-implications of Freudian psychoanalysis and Anglophone modernism that will influence the field for years to come.

Author : Catherine Morley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630721

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Modern American Literature by Catherine Morley Pdf

An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner alongside less familiar writers like Djuna Barnes and Susan Glaspell, the guide takes readers though a diverse literary landscape. It considers how the rise of the American metropolis contributed to the growth of American modernism; and also examines the ways in which regional writers responded to an accelerated American modernity. Taking in African American modernism, cultural and geographical exile, as well as developments in modern American drama, the guide introduces readers to current critical trends in modernist studies.

Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133194

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The Critical Reception of Henry James by Linda Simon Pdf

Author : Mark Whalan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108808026

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The Cambridge History of American Modernism by Mark Whalan Pdf

The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

Author : John Carlos Rowe,Eric Haralson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195121353

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A Historical Guide to Henry James by John Carlos Rowe,Eric Haralson Pdf

An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.

Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231543057

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Lasting Impressions by Jesse Matz Pdf

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to look at and think about the world and our experience of it. Its legacy has been felt in many major contributions to popular and high culture, from cubism and early cinema to the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald, from advertisements for Pepsi to the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet impressionism's persistence has also been a problem, a matter of inauthenticity, superficiality, and complicity in what is merely "impressionistic" about culture today. Jesse Matz considers these two legacies—the positive and the negative—to explain impressionism's true contemporary significance. As Lasting Impressions moves through contemporary literature, painting, and popular culture, Matz explains how the perceptual role, cultural effects, and social implications of impressionism continue to generate meaning and foster new forms of creativity, understanding, and public engagement.

Author : David McWhirter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521514613

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Henry James in Context by David McWhirter Pdf

The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.