Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / Tessa Hadley.

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Hadley, Tessa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511019033
9780511019036
0511045204
9780511045202
0511120281
9780511120282
9780521811699
0521811694
9780511485114
0511485115
128015960X
9781280159602

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Henry James and the imagination of pleasure.DDC classification:

813/.4 21

LOC classification:

PS2127.I4 H33 2002eb

Other classification:

18.05

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Contents:

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.

Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society.

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