"Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralising frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping him to leav...

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Main Author:	Hadley, Tessa (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 2002
Edition:	1. publ.
Subjects:	James, Henry <1843-1916> - Thèmes, motifs James, Henry, 1843-1916 > Criticism and interpretation James, Henry > 1843-1916 Genot Imagination dans la littérature Plaisir dans la littérature Verbeelding Imagination in literature Pleasure in literature Frau Erotik > Motiv Frau > Motiv Vergnügen > Motiv Sexualität
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Summary:	"Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralising frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping him to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberated James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	VIII, 205 S.
ISBN:	0521811694