Sexuality and Textuality in Henry James: Reading Through the Virginal

by Lloyd Davis

Using Freudian and post-Freudian theories, Henry James's fiction is reinterpreted as an arena of linguistic and sexual interaction. Through readings of novels including The American and The Golden Bowl, it is argued that James's work, like Freud's itself, can be read as representative and revealing of social and psychological forces, and then reread as a product of these same forces. The emphasis is not biographical but, through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082040599X
• ISBN13: 9780820405995
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 230 Pages