Prepossessing Henry James : the strange freedom /
The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed...
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New York :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Apophrades. The return of the dead : notes on belated freedom
- Askesis. The imaginary value : parables of the bastard son from Hamlet to The Princess Casamassima
- Daemonization. The strange freedom : the turn of the screw and the Pamela controversy
- Tessera. The enthusiasm of liberty : martyrdom and ascension in the Wings of the dove
- Kenosis. Friendly hints, tangled clued : rewriting Thackeray in the ambassadors
- Clinamen. Swerving from Dickens : individuation in the ivory tower.