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Subject(s)

• James, Henry 1843-1916—Knowledge and learning [Browse]
• Psychology [Browse]
• Homosexuality and literature—United States—History [Browse]
• Psychological fiction, American—History and criticism [Browse]
• James, Henry 1843-1916—Characters—Men [Browse]
• James, Henry 1843-1916—Psychology [Browse]
• Adolescence in literature [Browse]
• Narcissism in literature [Browse]
• Young men in literature [Browse]
• Desire in literature [Browse]
• Boys in literature [Browse]
• Sex in literature [Browse]

Summary note

• "Henry James remained throughout his life focused on his boyhood and early manhood, and correspondingly on younger boys and men. John R. Bradley illustrates how it is in the context of such narcissism that James consistently dealt with male desire in his fiction.
• He also traces a more subtle but related trajectory in James's writing from a Classical to a Modernist gay discourse, which in turn is shown to have been paralleled by a shift in James's fiction from naturalistic beginnings to later stylistic evasion and obscurity."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.

Contents

• 1. Critical Hostility
• 2. Defining James's Homosexuality
• 3. Whitman, Pater and the Importance of Being Manly in James's Early Fiction
• 4. John Addington Symonds and 'The Author of Beltraffio'
• 5. Public Scandals, Private Dilemmas
• 6. The Uses of Obscurity.

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ISBN

• 0333918746
• 0312235607

LCCN

00033338

OCLC

44045603

RCP

C - S

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