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Henry James's Permanent Adolescence

By John R. Bradley

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2000
ISBN
0333918746, 9780333918746
LCC
PS2127.P8 B7 2000
Open Library ID
OL6783172M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
819 kB (839164 bytes)
Pages
162\175
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Henry James remained throughout his life focused on his boyhood and early manhood, and correspondingly on younger boys and men, and John R. Bradley illustrates how it is in the context of such narcissism that James consistently dealt with male desire in his fiction. He also traces a more subtle but related trajectory in James's writing from a Classical to a Modernist gay discourse, 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. This radical book, which covers the whole of James's career, will quickly be recognized as a defining text in this emerging field of James studies.

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