Writing the Self
Subtitle: Henry James and America
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers; Pickering & Chatto
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781851968718
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; USA; American - General; Gay & Lesbian; Literary Criticism; Identiteit.; Identity (Psychology) in literature; gtt; American English
Description: This monograph re-evaluates the final decade of Henry James's creative life. In 1904-5 the elderly expatriate made an extensive tour of North America. Through close literary analysis of his later writing, Peter Collister recovers James's American identity.