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Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

Haviland, Beverly
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 110

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521563380
ISBN13: 9780521563383
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 28 1997
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. In this record of his 1904-5 return to America and in his unfinished novels, The Sense of the Past and The Ivory Tower, he interpreted the social conflicts that seemed to be paralyzing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between natives and aliens, between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Haviland's own method brings historical and theoretical readings into conversation with each other.

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