The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

A comprehensive collection of critical essays on the life and work of Henry James.

Jonathan Freedman (Edited by)

9780521499248, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 May 1998

280 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.38 kg

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.

Chronology
Introduction: the moment of Henry James Jonathan Freedman
1. Men, women, and the American way Martha Banta
2. The James' family theatricals Frances Wilson
3. Henry James: the question of our texts Philip Horne
4. Henry James and the invention of novel theory Dorothy Hale
5. Henry James and the idea of evil Robert Weisbuch
6. Queer Henry in the cage Hugh Stevens
7. The unmentionable subject in the pupil Millicent Bell
8. Realism, culture, and the place of literary: Henry James and The Bostonians Sara Blair
9. Lambert Strether's excellent adventure Eric Haralson
10. James's elusive wings William Stowe
11. Henry James's American dream in The Golden Bowl Margery Sabin
12. Affirming the alien: the pragmatist pluralism of the American scene Ross Posnock.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]