Henry James and the Culture of Publicity

Henry James and the Culture of Publicity
Title Henry James and the Culture of Publicity PDF eBook
Author Richard Salmon
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 248
Release 1997-10-02
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521562492

Download Henry James and the Culture of Publicity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Title Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture PDF eBook
Author Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 329
Release 2014-10-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0748697543

Download Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

The Other Henry James

The Other Henry James
Title The Other Henry James PDF eBook
Author John Carlos Rowe
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 260
Release 1998
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780822321477

Download The Other Henry James Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.

Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public

Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public
Title Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public PDF eBook
Author Daniel Hannah
Publisher Routledge
Pages 230
Release 2016-04-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317122569

Download Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.' Hannah challenges solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary impressionism, instead foregrounding James's treatment of the word 'impression' as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a breakdown between public and private at the end of the nineteenth century, James registers that breakdown not only as a threat but also as an opportunity for aesthetic gain. Beginning with a reading of 'The Art of Fiction' as both a public-forming essay and an aesthetic manifesto, Hannah's study examines James's responses to painterly impressionism and to aestheticism, and offers original readings of What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, and The American Scene that treat James's articulation of impressionism in relation to the child, the future of the novel, and shifts in the American national imaginary. Hannah's study persuasively argues that throughout his career James returns to impressionability not only as a site of immense vulnerability in an age of rapid change but also as a crucible for reshaping, challenging, and adapting to the public sphere’s shifting forms.

Henry James and the Culture of Consumption

Henry James and the Culture of Consumption
Title Henry James and the Culture of Consumption PDF eBook
Author Miranda El-Rayess
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 249
Release 2014-06-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107729513

Download Henry James and the Culture of Consumption Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book explores Henry James's imaginative engagements with the burgeoning consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on his hitherto neglected fascination with shops and the shopping experience. Examining a wide range of the author's fiction and non-fiction in the context of developments such as the rise of the department store, the growing public presence of women shoppers and shop workers, and the increasing sophistication of commodity display and advertising, the book argues that consumer desire constitutes an integral part of James's understanding of modern subjectivity. It also demonstrates that the structures and strategies of commodity culture are deeply embedded in his style, his aesthetic and his conception of authorship. The study offers new readings of familiar and less familiar texts, and includes a wealth of original historical documentation that has been gleaned from contemporary newspapers, periodicals, advertising manuals, sales catalogues and guidebooks.

Henry James

Henry James
Title Henry James PDF eBook
Author Ian F. A. Bell
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 208
Release 1985
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780389205159

Download Henry James Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This collection of new essays relates James's work to the political and social issues of his day, making this outstanding literary figure accessible to a broader reading public. Contributors include Richard Godden and Charles Swann, Millicent Bell and Deborah Phillips.

Acting Beautifully

Acting Beautifully
Title Acting Beautifully PDF eBook
Author Sigi Jottkandt
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 197
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0791482758

Download Acting Beautifully Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

What is the matter with the women in Henry James? In The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and his short story "The Altar of the Dead," one woman returns to a monster of a husband, another dies rather than confront the truth of her lover's engagement, while yet another stakes her all on having a candle lit for a dead lover, only to promptly reject it. Exploring these strange choices, Sigi Jöttkandt argues that the singularity of these acts lies in their ethical nature, and that the ethical principle involved cannot be divorced from the question of aesthetics. She combines close readings of James with suggestive tours through Kantian aesthetics and set theory to uncover the aesthetic underpinning of the Lacanian ethical act, which has been largely overlooked in the current drive to discover a Cartesian origin for the subject as the subject of science.