| Description |
xv, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: At Home: The Reception of Henry James -- Pt. 1. Making the Last Romance: The Sense of the Past. Ch. 1. The Sense of the Present. Ch. 2. Genre Trouble -- Pt. 2. Civilization and Its Contents: The American Scene. Ch. 3. Making Signs of the Past: Interpretation and C. S. Peirce. Ch. 4. Waste Makes Taste: Classicism, Conspicuous Consumption, and Thorstein Veblen. Ch. 5. "Psychic Mulatto": The Ambiguity of Race and W.E.B. Du Bois. Ch. 6. The Return of the Alien: Ethnic Identity and Jacob A. Riis -- Pt. 3. Patrimony and Matrimony: The Ivory Tower. Ch. 7. Heterosocial Acts: The Ambiguity of Gender in the New World. Ch. 8. Odd Couples: Henry James Senior and Jacques Lacan. Ch. 9. Irony Makes Love: Mrs. Henry James and Washington, A.C./D.C. -- Epilogue: On the Third Hand -- App. Excerpts from the 1900 and 1915 Manuscripts of The Sense of the Past |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-266) and index |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- America
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- History
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. American scene.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. Ivory tower
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. Sense of the past
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Culture in literature.
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Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Atlantic States (U.S.) -- Historiography
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Atlantic States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009208 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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United States -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100036
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| LC no. |
96043683 |
| ISBN |
0521563380 (hardback) |
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