Prepossessing Henry James

Auteur

Julián Jiménez Heffernan (Ph.D. Bologna, Italy) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. He has authored three books on Shakespeare, co-edited the collection Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2013), and published many essays on Renaissance philosophy, deconstruction, and modern fictionfrom Samuel Richardson to Nadine Gordimer. He is currently working on a book on Karl Marx and William Thackeray.

Texte du rabat

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens.

Contenu

Chapter 1: APOPHRADES. The Return of the Dead: Notes on Belated Freedom

Chapter 2: ASKESIS. The Imaginary Value: Parables of the Bastard Son from Hamlet to The Princess Casamassima

Chapter 3: DAEMONIZATION. The Strange Freedom: The Turn of the Screw and the Pamela Controversy

Chapter 4: TESSERA. The Enthusiasm of Liberty: Martyrdom and Ascension in The Wings of the Dove

Chapter 5: KENOSIS. Friendly Hints, Tangled Clued: Rewriting Thackeray in The Ambassadors

Chapter 6. CLINAMEN. Swerving from Dickens: Individuation in The Ivory Tower