Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

by Jane F Thrailkill

Alice James: an exemplary nineteenth-century neurasthenic and diarist. William James: a foundational figure for American psychology and philosophy. Henry James: a preeminent author and literary critic. These three iconic figures of nineteenth-century American culture and letters were also siblings, children of the storied James family, yet the diarist, the psychologist, and the novelist have seemed to occupy distinct realms of cultural authority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253329
• ISBN13: 9780812253320
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"