Silence in Henry James: The Heritage of Symbolism and Decadence

by John Auchard

Book Overview

Against a background of Continental literary movements, Auchard explores the structures of silence in the novels and tales of Henry James. He develops their dynamics in terms of plot and action as he draws out their disturbing philosophical implications. The book relates James to the reaction against nineteenth-century materialism, which was symbolism, to the potency of decadence, to the century's pulses of mysticism, even to its wave of aestheticized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271004207
• ISBN13: 9780271004204
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"