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Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Habegger, Alfred
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 32

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521609437
ISBN13: 9780521609432
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 26 2004
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions. This is the first book to investigate his father's bizarre lifelong struggle with free love and feminism, a struggle that played a major role in shaping James. The book also shows how seriously he distorted the truth about the cousin, Minnie Temple, whose self-assertive image inspired him; and how indebted he was to certain American women writers whom he attacked in reviews but whose plots and heroines he appropriated in his own fiction.

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