Henry James's Feminist Afterlives Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras /

• Main Author: Wichelns, Kathryn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; British literature.; Literature-Philosophy.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Literary Theory.

This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and place...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: On James, Mastery and Transgresion
• 2 "Those Who Know": Henry James and Annie Adams Fields
• 3 Emily Dickinson's Henry James
• 4 Henry James, French Feminist: Marguerite Duras's La Bête dans la jungle
• 5 Gender, Colonialism, and Italian Difference: Duras and The Aspern Papers
• 6 Conclusion: Towards a Queer Feminist James. .