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Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public (Paperback)
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Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public (Paperback)
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Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah
examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's
impressionism and his handling of 'the public.' Hannah challenges
solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary
impressionism, instead foregrounding James's treatment of the word
'impression' as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates
invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a breakdown between
public and private at the end of the nineteenth century, James
registers that breakdown not only as a threat but also as an
opportunity for aesthetic gain. Beginning with a reading of 'The
Art of Fiction' as both a public-forming essay and an aesthetic
manifesto, Hannah's study examines James's responses to painterly
impressionism and to aestheticism, and offers original readings of
What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, and The American Scene
that treat James's articulation of impressionism in relation to the
child, the future of the novel, and shifts in the American national
imaginary. Hannah's study persuasively argues that throughout his
career James returns to impressionability not only as a site of
immense vulnerability in an age of rapid change but also as a
crucible for reshaping, challenging, and adapting to the public
sphere's shifting forms.
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