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Henry James' Last Romance - Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Paperback, New)
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Henry James' Last Romance - Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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In 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.
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