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Henry James and the ’Woman Business’

By Alfred Habegger

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521609437, 9780521609432, 0521366356, 9780521366359, 9780511585722
LCC
PS2127.F44 H33 1989
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2401106 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Pages
300\298
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions. This is the first book to investigate his father's bizarre lifelong struggle with free love and feminism, a struggle that played a major role in shaping James. The book also shows how seriously he distorted the truth about the cousin, Minnie Temple, whose self-assertive image inspired him; and how indebted he was to certain American women writers whom he attacked in reviews but whose plots and heroines he appropriated in his own fiction.

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