The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Through the study of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how James Senior's dialogue with his contemporaries, such as Emerson and Whitman, anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood.
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"...Henry James and the Father Question is richly informed by a thorough knowledge of the archival record. Indeed, it is a treat to be reminded of so many well-turned phrases and astute observations by the Jameses and those in their circle and a delight to be introduced to new ones." The Henry James Review
"In response to several earlier studies, especially the work of Quentin anderson and Alfred Habegger's ^Henry james and the 'Woman Business' ... Taylor takes issue with 'blinkered and dehistoricized' treatments of the relationship between Henry James Senior and Henry James Junior." Choice
"In response to several earlier studies, especially the work of Quentin anderson and Alfred Habegger's ^Henry james and the 'Woman Business' ... Taylor takes issue with 'blinkered and dehistoricized' treatments of the relationship between Henry James Senior and Henry James Junior." Choice
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The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how James Senior's dialogue with his contemporaries, such as Emerson and Whitman, anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood.
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In 'The Diary of a Man of Fifty', a short story first published in 1879, Henry James describes a man actively engaged in the process of reconstituting his past - a process not dissimilar to that which would characterise James's own autobiographical narratives of over thirty years later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vastation experience, elder james, novelist son, autobiographical project, literary remains, fortunate fall, spiritual creation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry James, New England, New York, The Bostonians, The Portrait, Civil War, Thomas Carlyle, Basil Ransom, William James, New World, The Ambassadors, The Literary Remains, Atlantic Monthly, Brook Farm, Isabel Archer, Alfred Habegger, Miss Barrace, Stephen Dewhurst, William Dean Howells, Charles Eliot Norton, Madame Merle, Maria Gostrey, Matthew Arnold, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New Jerusalem New!
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In 'The Diary of a Man of Fifty', a short story first published in 1879, Henry James describes a man actively engaged in the process of reconstituting his past - a process not dissimilar to that which would characterise James's own autobiographical narratives of over thirty years later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vastation experience, elder james, novelist son, autobiographical project, literary remains, fortunate fall, spiritual creation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry James, New England, New York, The Bostonians, The Portrait, Civil War, Thomas Carlyle, Basil Ransom, William James, New World, The Ambassadors, The Literary Remains, Atlantic Monthly, Brook Farm, Isabel Archer, Alfred Habegger, Miss Barrace, Stephen Dewhurst, William Dean Howells, Charles Eliot Norton, Madame Merle, Maria Gostrey, Matthew Arnold, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New Jerusalem New!
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- A Small Boy and Others by Henry James on 10 pages
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James on 10 pages
- Notes Of A Son And Brother by Henry James on 5 pages
- Moralism and Christianity (Selected works of Henry James, Sr) by Henry James on 5 pages
- The American Scene (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 5 pages
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- Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana by Thomas L. Jeffers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Index
- Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America by Stephanie P. Browner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Mary Esteve in Front Matter
- Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by William R. Handley in Front Matter
- The Carlyles at Home and Abroad: Essays in Honour of Kenneth J. Fielding by David R. Sorensen in Front Matter
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