American memory in Henry James
Subtitle: void and value
By: William Righter ; edited by Rosemary Righter.
Contributors: Righter, Rosemary.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- History.; James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- United States.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Literature and history -- United States.; History in literature.; Memory in literature.; United States -- In literature.
Description: "American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. Through the prism of James' late works, the book explores the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common; and also with what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215) and index.