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Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith
Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by
American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment
of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued discretion, the key
concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion
marks not only the author's relationship to their subject matter
but also the behavior of the characters in the fiction. This study
takes into particular account the influence of the French literary
tradition on these two authors. At the crossroads of the new
freedom of expression opened up by French realism and the
persisting puritanical standards of their American audiences, James
and Wharton sough safe ways to address adult sexuality, and the
French theme of adulterous love in particular.
Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued 'discretion', the key concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion marks not only the author's relationship to their subject matter but also the behaviour of the characters in the fiction. This study takes into particular account the influence of the French literary tradition on these two authors. At the crossroads of the new freedom of expression opened up by French realism and the persisting puritanical standards of their American audiences, James and Wharton sought safe ways to address adult sexuality, and the 'French' theme of adulterous love in particular.
Elie Paul Cohen, a Franco-British civilian emergency doctor, was in
his youth an anti-militarist who evaded conscription. But decades
later, his military record comes back to haunt him when it turns up
in his professional dossier. In a surreal coincidence, the French,
British, and Israeli secret services suddenly become interested in
recruiting him, and Cohen accepts the deal the French Army offers:
he can settle his accounts by serving as a liaison emergency doctor
in Afghanistan. After a year and a half of training, Cohen is in
2011 deployed at Camp Bastion, the largest British Military base
since World War II. His mission is twofold: First, to study Damage
Control Resuscitation, a new treatment for polytraumatized soldiers
that was developed by British doctors in Afghanistan. Second, to
share these advanced protocols with the French Military Health
Service. Combining elements of spy thriller and adventure story
with reflections on the costs of war, Cohen's memoir offers a
unique perspective on the conflict in Afghanistan, and on the
medical challenges presented by the expansion of terrorism into
Europe and America.
Alternating discursive accounts with fictional vignettes that
recreate time and place, this book skillfully integrates the
history of French gardens with the modern history of ideas.Denise
Le Dantec is a poet and Professor of Philosophy at the Centre
National d'Enseignement a "istance, Paris. Jean-Pierre Le Dantec is
a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of
Paris La-Villette."
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