The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Wisconsin Project on American Writers Series .
- Wisconsin Project on American Writers Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Henry James and Modern Criticism: Some Version of Literary Mastery -- Chapter 2: Literary Influences -- Part I: James's "Hawthorne" and the American Anxiety of Influence -- Part II: James, Trollope, and the Victorian Anxiety of Influence -- Chapter 3: Feminist Issues: Women, Power, and Rebellion in "The Bostonians", "The Spoils of Poynton" and "The Aspern Papers -- Chapter 4: Psychoanalytical Significances: The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in "The Turn of the Screw -- Chapter 5: Social Values: The Marxist Critique of Modernism and "The Princess Casamassima -- Chapter 6: Phenomenological Hermeneutics: Henry James and Literary Impressionism -- Chapter 7: Forms of the Reader's Act: Author and Reader in the Prefaces to the New York Edition -- Phantoms -- Notes -- Index.
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James, Henry,-1843-1916-Criticism and interpretation. Communism and literature. Feminism and literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). Phenomenology and literature. Psychoanalysis and literature. Reader-response criticism.