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Henry James' Last Romance - Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,685
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Henry James' Last Romance - Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Hardcover, New): Beverly Haviland

Henry James' Last Romance - Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Hardcover, New)

Beverly Haviland

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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Release date: September 1997
First published: 1997
Authors: Beverly Haviland
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-56338-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN: 0-521-56338-0
Barcode: 9780521563383

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