The prefaces of Henry James : framing the modern reader /
Pearson, John H.,1955-
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What's in a preface? what's in a frame? what's in it for James? -- The politics of the preface -- Tales of origin and James's aesthetic memory -- Authorial performance and subversions of reading : The wings of the dove and What Maisie knew -- Meaning, context, intertext : a preface to ten tales -- Consciousness and the construction of identity : reading The portrait of a lady through the preface.
BNA
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Authors and readers
Reader-response criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Fiction
Prefaces.