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Henry James, women, and realism /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Henry James, women, and realism // Victoria Coulson.
remainder title:	Henry James, Women & Realism
Author:	Coulson, Victoria,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Women in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485053
ISBN:	9780511485053 (ebook)

Henry James, women, and realism /
Coulson, Victoria,

Henry James, women, and realism /Henry James, Women & RealismVictoria Coulson. - 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

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

Introduction: ambivalent realism -- Alice James and the portrait heroine -- The actress and the orphan: Henry James's art of loss, 1882-1895 -- Teacups and love letters: Constance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James -- Realism and interior design: Edith Wharton and Henry James -- Epilogue: 1892.

Women were hugely important to Henry James, both in his vividly drawn female characters and in his relationships with female relatives and friends. Combining biography with literary criticism and theoretical inquiry, Victoria Coulson explores James's relationships with three of the most important women in his life: his friends, the novelists Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton, and his sister Alice James, who composed a significant diary in the last years of her life. These writers shared not only their attitudes to gender and sexuality, but also their affinity for a certain form of literary representation, which Coulson defines as 'ambivalent realism'. The book draws on a diverse range of sources from fiction, autobiography, theatre reviews, travel writing, private journals, and correspondence. Coulson argues, compellingly, that the personal lives and literary works of these four writers manifest a widespread cultural ambivalence about gender identity at the end of the nineteenth century.

ISBN: 9780511485053 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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

558061
Women in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS2127.W6 / C68 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 813.4

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