Henry James against the aesthetic movement : essays on the middle and late fiction / edited by David Garrett Izzo and Daniel T. O'Hara.
Izzo, David Garrett.; O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-
2006
PS2124 .H436 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Henry James against the aesthetic movement : essays on the middle and late fiction / edited by David Garrett Izzo and Daniel T. O'Hara.
ISBN
9780786425785 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0786425784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
Language
English
Description
x, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PS2124 .H436 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.4
Summary
"These 11 essays, along with an introduction and an afterword, examine the middle and late phases of James's work. Topics include the Henry James revival of the 1930s; three of James's male aesthetes; women in his works; literary forgery; parallels with the career and views of Margaret Oliphant; issues of representation in art and fiction; identity; and homosexuality"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Izzo, David Garrett.
O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-
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The Henry James revival of the 1930s / David Garrett Izzo - Three aesthetes in profile: Gilbert Osmond, Mark Ambient, and Gabriel Nash / Maurizio Ascari - Killing mothers: decadent women in James's literary tales / Donatella Izzo - "The master in the middle distance": Max Beerbohm, Henry James and literary forgery / Maurizio Ascari - "At all times conspicuous as art": Henry James, Margaret Oliphant, and resistance to decadence / Solveig C. Robinson - The face of decadence in The sacred fount / Sheila Teahan - Figuring the princess: The princess casamassima and Pater's Mona Lisa / Andrea Cabus-Coldwell - On not representing Milly Theale: sacrificing for art in The wings of the dove / Mark Conroy - "The figure in the carpet" as an allegory of reading / Vittoria Intonti - On the ladder of social observation: images of decadence and morality in James's Washington Square and Wilde's An ideal husband / James Fisher - The importance of being Henry James: what the master learned from Oscar Wilde / Robert Combs - Papa, postcards, perfume, Phallic keys: James, Symonds, and Late-Victorian fictions of homosexuality / Stephen Da Silva - A Pair of afterwords / David Garrett Izzo.

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