Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

by Tessa Hadley

Book Overview

Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing 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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521119855
• ISBN13: 9780521119856
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"