Henry James and Sexuality offers a bold, new interpretation of James' fiction. Hugh Stevens argues that James' writing contains daring and radical representations of transgressive desires and marginalized sexual identities. He demonstrates the importance of incestuous desire, masochistic fantasy, and same-sex passions in a body of fiction that ostensibly conforms to, while ironically mocking, the contemporary moral and publishing codes James faced. This original and exciting work will transform our understanding of this most enigmatic of writers.
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"Combining extraordinary theoretical range and subtlety with deft readings of a swath of Jamesian prose, Hugh Stevens makes the most comprehensive and compelling argument to date for James's place in queer literary history, setting a high standard indeed for interlocutors to come." Henry James Review
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Henry James and Sexuality offers a bold, new interpretation of James's fiction. Hugh Stevens argues that James's writing contains daring and radical representations of transgressive desires and marginalized sexual identities. He demonstrates the importance of incestuous desire, masochistic fantasy, and same-sex passions in a body of fiction which ostensibly conforms to, while ironically mocking, the contemporary moral and publishing codes James faced. This original and exciting work will transform our understanding of this most enigmatic of writers.
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While reading in Henry James's fiction a critique of modern notions of sexuality, this book examines the privileged role sexuality plays in the constitution of the self, or of 'character', in James's writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jolly corner, late fiction, erotic triangle, late tales, henry fames, modern homosexuality, homosexual subject Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roderick Hudson, The Bostonians, The Wings of the Dove, Olive Chancellor, Rowland Mallet, Dorian Gray, Henry James, Mary Garland, Acton Hague, Sir Luke, New York, Oscar Wilde, Madame Merle, Kate Croy, New Woman, Hyacinth Robinson, Aunt Maud, Christina Light, Basil Ransom, The Longest Journey, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Isabel Archer, Jonathan Freedman, Milly Theale, Spencer Brydon New!
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While reading in Henry James's fiction a critique of modern notions of sexuality, this book examines the privileged role sexuality plays in the constitution of the self, or of 'character', in James's writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jolly corner, late fiction, erotic triangle, late tales, henry fames, modern homosexuality, homosexual subject Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roderick Hudson, The Bostonians, The Wings of the Dove, Olive Chancellor, Rowland Mallet, Dorian Gray, Henry James, Mary Garland, Acton Hague, Sir Luke, New York, Oscar Wilde, Madame Merle, Kate Croy, New Woman, Hyacinth Robinson, Aunt Maud, Christina Light, Basil Ransom, The Longest Journey, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Isabel Archer, Jonathan Freedman, Milly Theale, Spencer Brydon New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 20 pages
- The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 13 pages
- The Jolly Corner by Henry, Jr. James on 11 pages
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde on 9 pages
- A Problem in Modern Ethics by John Addington Symonds on 7 pages
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- Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure by Tessa Hadley on 6 pages
- Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England by Richard Dellamora in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel by Amy M. King in Back Matter
- The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (New Americanists) by Stacey Margolis in Back Matter
- America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Jeffory A. Clymer in Back Matter
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