The Death & Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence - Couverture souple

James, Alice

 
9781878972200: The Death & Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

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Selected Correspondence, Edited with a Biographical Essay by Ruth Bernard Yeazell Alice James, 1848-1892, was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her brothers bu but never formally educated. Here Yeazell argues that Alice James instead made a career of her lifelong neurastenic illness and anticipation of death. With many of the letters written from her sick bed, she is alternatively witty, lyrical and occasionally bitter, but always deeply morbid.

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Selected Correspondence, Edited with a Biographical Essay by Ruth Bernard Yeazell Alice James, 1848-1892, was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her brothers bu but never formally educated. Here Yeazell argues that Alice James instead made a career of her lifelong neurastenic illness and anticipation of death. With many of the letters written from her sick bed, she is alternatively witty, lyrical and occasionally bitter, but always deeply morbid.

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ISBN 10 :  0520049632 ISBN 13 :  9780520049635
Editeur : University of California Press, 1986
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