New Essays on 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Turn of the Screw'. [The American Novel]

POLLAK, Vivian R. (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0521426812 / ISBN 13: 9780521426817

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1993

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pp.ix, 153 pages, a near fine paperback [0521426812].

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• Titre: New Essays on 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Turn of the Screw'. [The American Novel]
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521426812
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521426817
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • English Literary Criticism

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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw may be Henry James's most widely read tales. Certainly, these swiftly moving accounts of failed connections are among the best examples of his shorter fiction. One represents the international theme that made him famous; the other exemplifies the multiple meanings that make him modern. The introduction to this 1993 volume locates his fiction in the context of the family that conditioned his concern with the sexual politics of intimate experience. In the four essays that follow, Kenneth Graham offers a close reading of Daisy with an emphasis on Daisy; Robert Weisbuch examines Winterbourne as a specimen of James's formidable bachelor type; Millicent Bell places the ghost story governess in the traditions of English fiction and society; David McWhirter then provides a critique of female authority. Deftly summarising earlier criticism, these essays demonstrate the continuing appeal of Henry James in our time.