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Henry James and the Visual (Paperback)
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Henry James and the Visual (Paperback)
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In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world
and their place in it? In this 2007 text, Kendall Johnson argues
that Henry James appealed to his readers' sense of vision to
dramatise the ambiguity of American citizenship in scenes of tense
encounter with Europeans. By reviving the eighteenth-century
debates over beauty, sublimity, and the picturesque, James weaves
into his narratives the national politics of emancipation,
immigration, and Indian Removal. For James, visual experience is
crucial to the American communal identity, a position that
challenged prominent anthropologists as they defined concepts of
race and culture in ways that continue to shape how we see the
world today. To demonstrate the cultural stereotypes that James
reworked, the book includes twenty illustrations from periodicals
of the nineteenth century. This study reaches startling conclusions
not just about James, but about the way America defined itself
through the arts in the nineteenth century.
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