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Paperback Queer Impressions: Henry James' Art of Fiction Book

ISBN: 0415512964

ISBN13: 9780415512961

Queer Impressions: Henry James' Art of Fiction

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Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady, this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in particular, her Emersonian idealism. In order to expose Emerson's blind spot, a lacuna at the very centre of his New England Transcendentalism, James draws on the Gothic effects of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, thereby producing an intensification...

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