Henry James's thwarted love
By: Wendy Graham.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Sex in literature; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism; Androgyny (Psychology) in literature; Sexual abstinence in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States; Homosexuality and literature; Sublimation (Psychology) in literature; Gay men in literature; Love in literature
Description: "This provocative book argues that in his fiction Henry James was more canny about sexual identities, more focused on sexual pleasure, and more insistent on flouting heterosexual convention than has been acknowledged by his critics and biographers.

Without leaping to the construction of a "gay" Henry James, whose writings aver a conscious sexual preference, the author demonstrates James's deep engagement with the construct of sexual "inversion," his familiarity with the tropes and traffic of the late-Victorian sexual underground, and his resistance to the cultural codes and institutions that disciplined social and private behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index.