Henry James in Context (Literature in Context)

Cambridge University Press, 9/16/2010
EAN 9780521514613, ISBN10: 0521514614

Hardcover, 528 pages, 22.9 x 15.5 x 3 cm
Language: English

Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in, the social, political, and material realities of his time. As this volume demonstrates, however, James was acutely responsive not only to his era's changing attitudes toward gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity, but also to changing conditions of literary production and reception, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, and the emergence of new technologies and media, of new apprehensions of time and space. These essays portray the author and his works in the context of the modernity that determined, formed, interested, appalled, and/or provoked his always curious mind. With contributions from an international cast of distinguished scholars, Henry James in Context provides a map of leading edge work in contemporary James studies, an invaluable reference work for students and scholars, and a blueprint for possible future directions.

Preface
Chronology Christopher Carmona
Part I. Life and Career, Times and Places
1. Nineteenth-century America (1843–70) Andrew Taylor
2. Nineteenth-century Europe (1843–1900) Millicent Bell
3. Victorian England (1870–90) Priscilla L. Walton
4. Fin-de-siècle London (1890–1900) Michael Levenson
5. The twentieth-century world (1901–16) Martha Banta
6. Autobiographies and biographies Sheila Teahan
7. Letters and notebooks Philip Horne
8. The James family Pierre A. Walker
Part II. Historical and Cultural Contexts
9. Aestheticism and decadence Michèle Mendelssohn
10. Authorship Richard Salmon
11. Children Kevin Ohi
12. Consumer culture Miranda El-Rayess
13. Cosmopolitanism Jessica Berman
14. Courtship, marriage, family Lynn Wardley
15. Ethics Merle A. Williams
16. Language Elsa Nettels
17. Law Stuart Culver
18. Manners Mary Ann O'Farrell
19. Media and communication technologies Mark Goble
20. Modernism Eric Haralson
21. Money and class June Hee Chung
22. Museums and exhibitions Tamara L. Follini
23. Nationalism and imperialism John Carlos Rowe
24. Print culture Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
25. Psychology Sarah Blackwood
26. Race Kenneth W. Warren
27. Realism and naturalism Phillip Barrish
28. Sexualities and sexology Hugh Stevens
29. Social sciences and the disciplines Wendy Graham
30. Things Victoria Coulson
31. Time Deidre Lynch
32. Travel and tourism Roslyn Jolly
33. Urbanity Eric Savoy
34. Visual culture Kendall Johnson
35. Women and men Donatella Izzo
36. Work Rory Drummond
Part III. Reception
37. Publishing history and contemporary reception Linda Simon
38. Critical response, 1916–47 Michael Anesko
39. Critical response, 1947–85 Jonathan Freedman
40. Recent criticism (since 1985) Gert Buelens
41. Translation and international reception Annick Duperray and Jeremy Tambling
Further reading
Index.