Taken both as a whole and individually this collection of essays makes a real contribution to James studies.
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction.
This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics—which ultimately lead to a profound reevaluation of his writing.
Henry James' Europe: Heritage and Transfer
Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding (eds.) | May 2011
xxiv + 292 | 5 black and white illustrations | 6.14" x 9.21" (234 x 156 mm)
ISBN Paperback: 9781906924362
ISBN Hardback: 9781906924379
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781906924386
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0013
BIC subject codes: DSB (Literary Studies), BGL (Biography: literary)
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Preface
Dennis Tredy
On ‘The European Society of Jamesian Studies’
Adrian Harding
Part 1: Ethics and Aesthetics
1. Henry James on Opening the Door to the Devil
Jean Gooder
2. From Romance to Redemption: James and the Ethics of Globalization
Roxana Oltean
3. James’s Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique
Esther Sanchez-Pardo
4. Bad Investments
Eric Savoy
Part 2: French and Italian Hours
5. ‘The Crash of Civilization’: James and the Idea of France, 1914-15
Hazel Hutchison
6. The Citizens of Babylon and the Imperial Imperative: James’s Modern Parisian Women
Claire Garcia
7. French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew
Agnès Derail-Imbert
8. Figures of Fulfilment: James and ‘a Sense of Italy’
Jacek Gutorow
9. The Aspern Papers: from Florence to an Intertextual City, Venice
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
10. The Wavering Ruins of The American
Enrico Botta
Part 3: Appropriating European Thematics
11. Balzacian Intertextuality and Jamesian Autobiography in The Ambassadors
Kathleen Lawrence
12. A Discordance Between the Self and the World: The Collector in Balzac’s Cousin Pons and James’s ‘Adina’ Simone Francescato
13. ‘Déjà vu’ in ‘The Turn of the Screw’
Max Duperray
Part 4: Allusion
14. Some Allusions in the Early Stories
Angus Wrenn
15. C’est strictement confidentiel: Buried Allusions in Confidence (1879)
Rebekah Scott
16. James and the Habit of Allusion
Oliver Herford
Part 5: Performance
17. The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse
Nelly Valtat-Comet
18. James and the ‘Paradox of the Comedian’
Richard Anker
19. Benjamin Britten’s Appropriation of James in ‘Owen Wingrave’
Hubert Teyssandier
Part 6: Authorship and Self-Representation
20. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American Scene
Eleftheria Arapoglou
21. James’s Faces: Appearance, Absorption and the Aesthetic Significance of the Face
Jakob Stougaard-Nielson
22. From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors
Paula Marantz Cohen
23. Friction with the Publishers, or How James Manipulated his Editors in the Early 1870’s
Pierre A. Walker
24. Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, Vision
John Holland
Bibliography of works cited
Index
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Introduction
Dennis Tredy
I. Re-Readings and Re-Workings of the International Theme
1. Tourist Attractions, Stereotypes and Physiognomies in The American
H. K. Riikonen
2. ‘Haunting and Penetrating the City’: The Influence of Emile Zola’s L’Assommoir on James’s The Princess Casamassima
David Davies
3. The Mother as Artist in "Louisa Pallant”: Re-casting the International Scene
Larry A. Gray
4. James’s Romantic Promises: The Golden Bowl and the Virtual
Leman Giresunlu
II. Beyond Biography
5. Father and Son: The Divided Self in James’s Notes of a Son and Brother
Mhairi Pooler
6. "Fond Calculations”: The Triumph of James’s Mathematical Failure
Isobel Waters
7. A Multiplicity of Folds of an Unconscious ‘Crystal’ Monad: James, Benjamin, and Blanchot
Erik S. Roraback
8. "Life after Death”: James and Postmodern Biofiction
Madeleine Danova
Bibliography of works cited
Introduction
Dennis Tredy
I. Re-Readings and Re-Workings of the International Theme
1. Tourist Attractions, Stereotypes and Physiognomies in The American
H. K. Riikonen
2. ‘Haunting and Penetrating the City’: The Influence of Emile Zola’s L’Assommoir on James’s The Princess Casamassima
David Davies
3. The Mother as Artist in "Louisa Pallant”: Re-casting the International Scene
Larry A. Gray
4. James’s Romantic Promises: The Golden Bowl and the Virtual
Leman Giresunlu
II. Beyond Biography
5. Father and Son: The Divided Self in James’s Notes of a Son and Brother
Mhairi Pooler
6. "Fond Calculations”: The Triumph of James’s Mathematical Failure
Isobel Waters
7. A Multiplicity of Folds of an Unconscious ‘Crystal’ Monad: James, Benjamin, and Blanchot
Erik S. Roraback
8. "Life after Death”: James and Postmodern Biofiction
Madeleine Danova
Bibliography of works cited