Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: July 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230008274
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; James, Henry, 1843-1916; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 1843-1916; Criticism and interpretation; Decadence in literature; James, Henry,
Description: Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James is a study of the novels of 'the major phase', taken as a cumulative, coherently evolving corpus. Anna Kventsel addresses these novels as a finely calibrated exploration of fin-de-sïcle experience, revealing how they invoke familiar western polarizations of spirit and matter, mind and body, subject and object, in order to grapple with a psycho-cultural impasse caused by increasing rigidification of these polarities. Through detailed close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, this significant new study presents a fresh account of late-Jamesian subjectivity.