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Henry James's permanent adolescence
- Title
- Henry James's permanent adolescence / John R. Bradley.
- Author
- Bradley, John R., 1970-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS2127.P8 B7 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 162 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Henry James remained throughout his life focused on his boyhood and early manhood, and correspondingly on younger boys and men. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Homosexuality and literature > United States > History
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 > Knowledge > Psychology
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 > Characters > Men
- Adolescence in literature
- Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism
- Narcissism in literature
- Young men in literature
- Desire in literature
- Sex in literature
- Boys in literature
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 > Psychology
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Critical Hostility -- 2. Defining James's Homosexuality -- 3. Whitman, Pater and the Importance of Being Manly in James's Early Fiction -- 4. John Addington Symonds and 'The Author of Beltraffio' -- 5. Public Scandals, Private Dilemmas -- 6. The Uses of Obscurity.
- ISBN
- 0333918746
- 0312235607
- LCCN
- 00033338
- OCLC
- ocm44045603
- SCSB-4032041
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries