Title American Memory in Henry James : Void and Value

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Author's note -- Acknowledgements, in Memoriam, by Rosemary Righter -- Part One: America Deconstructed -- 1 The Jamesian Perspective -- 2 The Composite Light -- 3 America and the Pathos of Desire -- Notes to Part One -- Part Two: The Note of Europe -- 4 An Encounter in Nôtre Dame -- 5 T̀here to Reconstruct' -- 6 The Comedy of Moral Terms -- 7 Strether's Reasons -- 8 Values in Collision -- 9 Nihilism and Decorum -- Notes to Part Two -- Part Three: Amerigo in an American Nowhere -- 10 Characters in a Void -- 11 The Shaping of the Prince -- 12 Anomalies of Place and Time -- Notes to Part Three -- Part Four: A Dark Fable of Love and Power -- 13 The Perilous Equilibrium -- 14 The Triumph of the Will -- 15 A Map of Incommensurability -- 16 Fictive Resolutions -- Notes to Part Four -- Part Five: Form and Contingency -- 17 From Portland Place to American City -- 18 In the Museum -- 19 The Elusive Synthesis -- 20 Coda: The C̀omplex Fate' -- Notes to Part Five -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Print version record Subject James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- History James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- United States SUBJECT James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast Subject National characteristics, American, in literature. Literature and history -- United States History in literature. Memory in literature. History History in literature Literature Literature and history Memory in literature National characteristics, American, in literature SUBJECT United States -- In literature Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Righter, Ms Rosemary ISBN 9781351959339 1351959336

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