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Enacting History in Henry James - Narrative, Power, and Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Enacting History in Henry James - Narrative, Power, and Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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The Jamesian mode of writing, it has been claimed, actively works
against an understanding of the way truth, history and power
circulate in his texts. In this collection of essays, leading
scholars of James analyse the strategies James used to address
these crucial issues. Enacting History in Henry James claims that,
because the type of knowledge available in James's fiction is never
of a cognitive kind, the reader can never know 'truth' in any
verifiable sense. James's writing instead promises an experiential
type of knowledge, one that is attained by participating in the
power games and moral dramas that unfold within the text. This
collection argues that reading James ultimately requires not just
an emotional responsiveness, but also an ethical assumption of
responsibility for the act of reading. By placing James's work in a
fresh theoretical context, this book throws fresh light on this
most enigmatic of writers.
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