| Henry James's Feminist Afterlives: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Wichelns, Kathryn (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319891073 ISBN-13: 9783319891071 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $26.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 801 |
| Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.57 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless share complex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history of feminist scholarly responses to their work. Kathryn Wichelns draws upon James' correspondence with Fields, as well as Dickinson's and Duras's revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of his project. By contextualizing his writing within a diverse set of feminist perspectives, each grounded in a specific time and place, as well as nineteenth-century views of queer male sexuality, Wichelns demonstrates the centrality of Henry James's ambivalent identifications with women to his work. |