The Jamesian mode of writing, it has been claimed, actively works against an understanding of the way truth, history and power circulate in his texts. Enacting History in Henry James argues instead that James' writing promises an experiential type of knowledge, one that is attained by actively participating in the power games and moral dramas that unfold within the text. Reading James thus requires not just an emotional responsiveness, but also an ethical assumption of responsibility for the act of reading. This book places James' work in a fresh theoretical context and throws new light on this most enigmatic of writers.
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The Jamesian mode of writing, it has been claimed, actively works against an understanding of the way truth, history and power circulate in his texts. Enacting History in Henry James argues instead that James's writing promises an experiential type of knowledge, one that is attained by actively participating in the power games and moral dramas that unfold within the text. Reading James thus requires not just an emotional responsiveness, but also an ethical assumption of responsibility for the act of reading. This book places James's work in a fresh theoretical context and throws new light on this most enigmatic of writers.
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New York, The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors, William James, Madame de Vionnet, Sir Claude, May Bartram, Jeffrey Aspern, Maria Gostrey, Acton Hague, Oxford University Press, The Wings of the Dove, Cambridge University Press, Leon Edel, Roderick Hudson, African American, Jim Crow, John Marcher, Little Bilham, Maggie Verver, University of Chicago Press, Chapel Hill, Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Isabel Archer New!
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In James-criticism, 'demystifying the master' seems to have become the main agenda. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors, William James, Madame de Vionnet, Sir Claude, May Bartram, Jeffrey Aspern, Maria Gostrey, Acton Hague, Oxford University Press, The Wings of the Dove, Cambridge University Press, Leon Edel, Roderick Hudson, African American, Jim Crow, John Marcher, Little Bilham, Maggie Verver, University of Chicago Press, Chapel Hill, Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Isabel Archer New!
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- The American Scene (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 30 pages
- Aspern Papers (Everyman's Library) by Henry James on 21 pages
- The American Scene (United States Local History Ser, No Bcl1) by James Henry on 13 pages
- The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 13 pages
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James on 13 pages
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- Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture by Michael T. Gilmore in Back Matter
- Queer Gothic by George Haggerty in Back Matter
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