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The Critical Reception of Henry James - Creating a Master (Paperback): Linda Simon The Critical Reception of Henry James - Creating a Master (Paperback)
Linda Simon
R760 R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Save R54 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer. Although some of Henry James's contemporary critics deemed him just short of a great writer, history has elevated him to indisputable preeminence in the American canon. Linda Simon chronicles and analyzes James criticism beginningwith contemporary newspaper and magazine reviews and ending with current academic criticism. The story begins in the 1870s, when critics saw James's works as mirrors of American identity and sought to establish him in the nation's evolving canon. James himself worked to secure that place with his prefaces to the standard edition of his works; Simon analyzes criticism about those prefaces. She also shows how James's reputation became contested after his death: praised by some critics for psychological insight and stylistic innovation, he was dismissed by others as socially and politically irrelevant. But beginning in the 1940s, such critics as Trilling, Rahv, Leavis, and, most influentially, Leon Edel secured James's place at the forefront of the American canon. More recently, James scholarship has focused on sexuality and gender, race and morality, and the nature of consciousness; critical trends Simon also considers. This book, the only comprehensive overview of James criticism over the past 140 years, helps readers understand the paths that that criticism has taken and how scholars and critics have built upon past work. Linda Simon is Professor Emerita of English at Skidmore College and Editor-in-Chief of William James Studies. Her books include Genuine Reality: A Life of William James, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998.

The Greatest Shows on Earth - A History of the Circus (Paperback): Linda Simon The Greatest Shows on Earth - A History of the Circus (Paperback)
Linda Simon
R626 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R115 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now available in paperback, The Greatest Shows on Earth takes us from eighteenth-century hippodromes in Britain to intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted by aerialists and clowns. We meet P. T. Barnum, James Bailey and the enterprising Ringling Brothers, who created the golden age of American circuses. We explore contemporary transformations of the circus, from the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia to New York City's Big Apple Circus. Circus people are central to the story: trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns - these are the men and women who create the sensational, raucous, titillating and incomparable world of the circus. Beautifully illustrated, rich in historical detail and full of colourful anecdotes, Linda Simon's vibrant history is as enchanting as a night at the big-top itself.

The River Will Save Us (Paperback): Linda Simone The River Will Save Us (Paperback)
Linda Simone
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stop Bedwetting Fast - A Parent's guide to help your child stop bedwetting (Paperback): Linda Simon Stop Bedwetting Fast - A Parent's guide to help your child stop bedwetting (Paperback)
Linda Simon
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Miller Beach (Hardcover): Linda Simon, Jane Ammeson Miller Beach (Hardcover)
Linda Simon, Jane Ammeson
R842 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture (Paperback): Luella D'amico Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture (Paperback)
Luella D'amico; Contributions by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E Farnan, Paige Gray, …
R1,885 Discovery Miles 18 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America's tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of American girls have been exposed to girls' series in some form, whether through books, television, or other media, suggests that this genre needs to be studied further and that the development of the heroines that girls read about have created an impact that is worthy of a fresh critical lens. Thus, this collection explores how series books have influenced and shaped popular American culture and, in doing so, girls' everyday experiences from the mid nineteenth century until now. The collection interrogates the cultural work that is performed through the series genre, contemplating the messages these books relay about subjects including race, class, gender, education, family, romance, and friendship, and it examines the trajectory of girl fiction within such contexts as material culture, geopolitics, socioeconomics, and feminism.

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture (Hardcover): Luella D'amico Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Luella D'amico; Contributions by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E Farnan, Paige Gray, …
R4,046 Discovery Miles 40 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America's tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of American girls have been exposed to girls' series in some form, whether through books, television, or other media, suggests that this genre needs to be studied further and that the development of the heroines that girls read about have created an impact that is worthy of a fresh critical lens. Thus, this collection explores how series books have influenced and shaped popular American culture and, in doing so, girls' everyday experiences from the mid nineteenth century until now. The collection interrogates the cultural work that is performed through the series genre, contemplating the messages these books relay about subjects including race, class, gender, education, family, romance, and friendship, and it examines the trajectory of girl fiction within such contexts as material culture, geopolitics, socioeconomics, and feminism.

100 Years of Pragmatism - William James's Revolutionary Philosophy (Paperback): John J Stuhr 100 Years of Pragmatism - William James's Revolutionary Philosophy (Paperback)
John J Stuhr; Contributions by James T. Kloppenberg, Mark Bauerlein, Ross Posnock, William J Gavin, …
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

William James claimed that his Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking would prove triumphant and epoch-making. Today, after more than 100 years, how is pragmatism to be understood? What has been its cultural and philosophical impact? Is it a crucial resource for current problems and for life and thought in the future? John J. Stuhr and the distinguished contributors to this multidisciplinary volume address these questions, situating them in personal, philosophical, political, American, and global contexts. Engaging James in original ways, these 11 essays probe and extend the significance of pragmatism as they focus on four major, overlapping themes: pragmatism and American culture; pragmatism as a method of thinking and settling disagreements; pragmatism as theory of truth; and pragmatism as a mood, attitude, or temperament.

Dark Light (Paperback): Linda Simon Dark Light (Paperback)
Linda Simon
R592 R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Save R73 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879 Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today?
In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources. Tracing fifty years of technological transformation, from Morse's invention of the telegraph to Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, she has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age.

Genuine Reality - A Life of William James (Paperback, Univ of Chicago PR ed.): Linda Simon Genuine Reality - A Life of William James (Paperback, Univ of Chicago PR ed.)
Linda Simon
R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intellectual rebel, romantic pragmatist, aristocratic pluralist, William James was both a towering figure of the nineteenth century and a harbinger of the twentieth. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including 1,500 letters between James and his wife, acclaimed biographer Linda Simon creates an intimate portrait of this multifaceted and contradictory man. Exploring James's irrepressible family, his diverse friends, and the cultural and political forces to which he so energetically responded, Simon weaves the many threads of William James's life into a genuine, and vibrant, reality.
"William James . . . has never seemed so vulnerably human as in Linda Simon's biography. . . . [S]he vivifies James in such a way that his life and thought come freshly alive for the modern reader."--David S. Reynolds, "New York Times Book Review"
"Superb. . . . "Genuine Reality" is recommended reading for all soul-searchers."--George Gurley, "Chicago Tribune"
"Ms. Simon . . . has provided an ideal pathway for James's striding. . . . [Y]ou become engaged in his struggles as if they were your own."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "New York Times"
"[A]n excellent narrative biography at once sensitively told and lucidly written."--John Patrick Diggins, "Wall Street Journal"

Gertrude Stein Remembered (Paperback, New Ed): Linda Simon Gertrude Stein Remembered (Paperback, New Ed)
Linda Simon
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Gertrude Stein Remembered," a collection of memoirs by twenty people who knew her well, adds invaluable details to our view of Stein as a writer and woman. The recollections, some previously unpublished, cover the entire span of her career: from her time as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College to her extraordinary years as a writer in Paris from 1903 through 1946. Among the memoirists are novelists Sherwood Anderson and Thornton Wilder, bookseller Sylvia Beach, Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, journalists T. S. Matthews, Therese Bonney, and Eric Sevareid, and photographers Carl Van Vechten and Cecil Beaton.

The composite portrait that emerges is of a complex, sometimes contradictory, always fascinating woman. Gertrude Stein Remembered is a kaleidoscopic view of Stein that perfectly suits this protean champion of modern literature and the avant-garde.

The Correspondence of William James v. 5; 1878-84 (Hardcover): William James The Correspondence of William James v. 5; 1878-84 (Hardcover)
William James; Volume editing by Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Etc; Introduction by Linda Simon; Edited by John J. McDermott, …
R3,122 R2,411 Discovery Miles 24 110 Save R711 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

William James, well known for his contributions to psychology and philosophy, occupies a secure place in American intellectual history.This fifth volume of a projected twelve-volume edition chronicles James's emergence into professional and personal maturity. During this period, James took decisive steps toward resolving his notoriously protracted and difficult search for a profession. he published his first substantial signed articles and undertook some shrewd academic maneuvering that would secure him a chair in philosophy despite his lack of formal training.

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