Henry James, Consciousness, and the Evolution of the Novel

by Peter Rawlings

Positioning Henry James within his transatlantic and pan-European contexts, Peter Rawlings relocates James and the New Criticism's ideology of organicism in biology rather than in aesthetics. Rawlings argues that the novel as a genre anchored in the representation of character emerged from philosophical and scientific thinking about consciousness and experience that begins in the late seventeenth century and encompasses two hundred years of traffic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409423050
• ISBN13: 9781409423058
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages