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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (Paperback)
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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (Paperback)
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Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled
himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language
novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion.
Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel
tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in
which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's
transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling
and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned
and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes.
These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the
great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their
emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are
central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges
and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.
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