{"product_id":"henry-james-last-romance-making-sense-of-the-past-and-the-american-scene-hardback-9780521563383","title":"Henry James' Last Romance; Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Hardback) 9780521563383","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHenry James' Last Romance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaking Sense of the Past and the American Scene\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1998 study of Henry James's classic work of cultural criticism, The American Scene.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBeverly Haviland (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521563383, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This contextualization of immigration establishes a new benchmark in interpreting James's sense of Americanness historically and expansively.\"    Allan Hepburn, American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this 1998 study of Henry James's 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 James's 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 paralysing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between 'natives' and 'aliens', between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Although James has been represented as conservative by liberal critics, it is just such simplifying oppositions that his method of interpretation works to transform. Haviland's own metonymical method follows James's interpretative practice by bringing historical and theoretical readings of these texts into conversation with each other.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: at home: the reception of Henry James\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Henry James's Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present\u003cbr\u003e 2. The sense of a happy ending\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce\u003cbr\u003e 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and Thorstein Veblen\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B. Du Bois\u003cbr\u003e 6. The return of the alien: Ethnic identity and Jakob A. Riis\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Patrimony and Matrimony: The Ivory Tower: 7. Heterosocial acts: the ambiguity of gender in the New World\u003cbr\u003e 8. Odd couples: Henry James Senior and Jacques Lacan\u003cbr\u003e 9. Irony makes love: Mrs Henry James and Washington, AC\/DC.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065994039576,"sku":"9780521563383","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521563383i.jpg?v=1691408625","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/henry-james-last-romance-making-sense-of-the-past-and-the-american-scene-hardback-9780521563383","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}