Henry James's Feminist Afterlives

Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-89107-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 256 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

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 tohis work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wichelns, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: On James, Mastery and Transgresion.- 2 "Those Who Know”: Henry James and Annie Adams Fields.- 3 Emily Dickinson’s Henry James.- 4 Henry James, French Feminist: Marguerite Duras’s La Bête dans la jungle.- 5 Gender, Colonialism, and Italian Difference: Duras and The Aspern Papers.- 6 Conclusion: Towards a Queer Feminist James.

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn Wichelns is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.