Henry James and the imagination of pleasure
By: Tessa Hadley.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Imagination in literature; Pleasure in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of; title: The Portrait of a Lady; title: 2 As charming as a charming story': governesses in; title: What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw'; title: 3 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age andJames's men; title: of the world; title: 4 Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors; title: 5 Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'; title: and The Wings of the Dove; title: 6 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.