The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first to reveal the profound Catholic imagery in James' work. Edwin Fussell argues that Henry James, though not a "card-carrying" Catholic, was a fellow-traveling Catholic of a certain literary type. Fussell is not trying to turn James into a Closet Catholic but is, rather, intent on questioning conventional critical assumptions about James' unquestioned secularity. He contends that the writer's career began with narratives of Catholic conversion and ended with his masterpiece of Catholic eccentricity and alienation, The Golden Bowl. With an enormously detailed knowledge of James' novels, tales, letters, and journals, Fussell convincingly demonstrates the extent of the writer's involvement with the ideas of Catholicism.
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"Fussell's own style is Jamesian in wit and perceptiveness." Ronda Chervin, New Oxford Review
"I am grateful to Fussell, one of our most subtle readers of American literature, for his close reading of the Catholic elements. Fussell does not believe that James embraced Catholicism, but he does demonstrate in a careful manner the 'fascination' the religion held for him." Irving Malin, The Henry James Review
"The Catholic Side of Henry James, although quirky, extends our own tolerance for the mysteries embedded in James's cultural quest as well as for hermeneutic criticism of this sort, which bravely attempts to solve those mysteries--and sometimes creates new ones in the process." Peter Bien, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
"...one of the most thought-provoking aspects of Fussell's perceptive and knowledgeable book is the way it implicitly interrogates time-honored affiliates between American fiction and the great good places of Protestant self-reliance and freedom." Paul Giles, Nineteenth-Century Literature
"The Catholic Side of Henry James is a significant contribution to the field of James Studies." Religion and the Arts
"I am grateful to Fussell, one of our most subtle readers of American literature, for his close reading of the Catholic elements. Fussell does not believe that James embraced Catholicism, but he does demonstrate in a careful manner the 'fascination' the religion held for him." Irving Malin, The Henry James Review
"The Catholic Side of Henry James, although quirky, extends our own tolerance for the mysteries embedded in James's cultural quest as well as for hermeneutic criticism of this sort, which bravely attempts to solve those mysteries--and sometimes creates new ones in the process." Peter Bien, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
"...one of the most thought-provoking aspects of Fussell's perceptive and knowledgeable book is the way it implicitly interrogates time-honored affiliates between American fiction and the great good places of Protestant self-reliance and freedom." Paul Giles, Nineteenth-Century Literature
"The Catholic Side of Henry James is a significant contribution to the field of James Studies." Religion and the Arts
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The Catholic Side of Henry James reveals the profound Catholic imagery in the work of Henry James. Edwin Fussell questions conventional critical assumptions about James' secularity and shows that James; career began with narratives of Catholic conversion and ended with his masterpiece of Catholic eccentricity and alienation, The Golden Bowl.
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Because an early topic of this book is novels of Roman Catholic conversion, the reader may wish to learn about them as soon as possible; alas, the only bibliography I know of is "Novels of [Catholic] Conversion," in Albert J. Menendez' The Road to Rome: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1986). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old persuasion, conversion novel, great good place, conversion narratives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry James, Roman Catholic, Guy Domville, Miss Jessel, New England, Roderick Hudson, Minny Temple, New York Edition, The Turn of the Screw, Milly Theale, United States, Christina Light, Church of England, Travelling Companions, Father Herbert, Notre Dame, The Wings of the Dove, Clara Matilda, The Portrait, English Catholic, Gabrielle de Bergerac, The Reverberator, William James, Adam Verver, Isabel Archer New!
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Because an early topic of this book is novels of Roman Catholic conversion, the reader may wish to learn about them as soon as possible; alas, the only bibliography I know of is "Novels of [Catholic] Conversion," in Albert J. Menendez' The Road to Rome: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1986). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old persuasion, conversion novel, great good place, conversion narratives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry James, Roman Catholic, Guy Domville, Miss Jessel, New England, Roderick Hudson, Minny Temple, New York Edition, The Turn of the Screw, Milly Theale, United States, Christina Light, Church of England, Travelling Companions, Father Herbert, Notre Dame, The Wings of the Dove, Clara Matilda, The Portrait, English Catholic, Gabrielle de Bergerac, The Reverberator, William James, Adam Verver, Isabel Archer New!
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- The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 24 pages
- The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry James on 14 pages
- Watch and Ward by Henry, Jr. James on 12 pages
- The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 11 pages
- Henry James by Leon Edel on 11 pages
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- Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Susan M. Griffin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature by Fritz Oehlschlaeger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reimagining Thoreau (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Robert Milder in Back Matter
- Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Jon Lance Bacon in Front Matter
- Voices of Persuasion (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Michael E. Staub in Back Matter
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