Henry James's Permanent Adolescence [Hardcover]

John R. Bradley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 8, 2000

This book illustrates how narcissism helped shape the way Henry James explored the subject of male desire in his fiction, which in turn is shown to have been paralleled by a shift in James's fiction from naturalistic beginnings to later stylistic evasion and obscurity. It covers the whole of James's career.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Henry James's Permanent Adolescence is a valuable and well-written contribution to the on-going debate on James's fiction. ELT

About the Author

John R. Bradley is an Independent Scholar.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 172 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (December 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333918746
• ISBN-13: 978-0333918746
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,430,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John R. Bradley (johnrbradley.wordpress.com) was born in England in 1970. He was educated at University College London, Dartmouth College in the United States, and Exeter College, Oxford.

Between 1998 and 2010, Bradley was based in the Middle East. Fluent in Arabic, he is the author of four books on the region that draw heavily on his personal experience: Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), a Foreign Affairs bestseller; the critically acclaimed Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; reprinted in January 2011 in an updated edition with the subtitle The Road to Revolution in the Land of the Pharaohs), which uniquely and accurately predicted the Jan. 25 Cairo uprising; Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); and After the Arab Spring: How the Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Bradley's essays, dispatches, reviews, and op-eds have appeared in many publications, including: The Washington Quarterly, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, Salon, The London Telegraph, The London Daily Mail, The Forward, The London Evening Standard, The Jewish Chronicle, The Spectator, The New York Post, The London Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Independent, The Washington Times, Newsweek, Asia Times Online, Prospect, and The Economist.

He has been interviewed about the Middle East by CNN, the BBC, PBS, NPR, CBS, Fox News, Al-Jazeera English, Sky News, Channel 4 News, Bloomberg TV, and many other media outlets. And he has participated in public debates at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Intelligence Squared in London, and The Pacific Council for International Affairs in Los Angeles.