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The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity

By Ross Posnock

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0195066065, 9780195066067
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27361458 bytes)
Pages
382\373
Time added
2015-02-03 11:55:53

Description

In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of both brothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of cultural and intellectual affiliations comprised of a host of American and European theorists of modernity. A startlingly new Henry James emerges from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, which features Veblen, Santayana, Bourne, and Dewey, as well as Weber, Simmel, Benjamin, and Adorno.

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