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Henry James and the imagination of pleasure /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Henry James and the imagination of pleasure // Tessa Hadley.
remainder title:	Henry James & the Imagination of Pleasure
Author:	Hadley, Tessa,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Imagination in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485114
ISBN:	9780511485114 (ebook)

Henry James and the imagination of pleasure /
Hadley, Tessa,

Henry James and the imagination of pleasure /Henry James & the Imagination of PleasureTessa Hadley. - 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.

ISBN: 9780511485114 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

835127
James, Henry,
1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

955829
Imagination in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS2127.I4 / H33 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.4

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