How one city's cultural tradition shaped American identity in the nineteenth century
Subtitle: essays on Henry James's The Bostonians (1886)
By: [compiled by] Elaine Pigeon ; with a foreword by Leland S. Person.
Contributors: Pigeon, Elaine.
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780773450387
Subjects: James, Henry, -- 1843-1916; City and town life in literature; Boston (Mass.) -- In literature; Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elaine Pigeon; title: The novel.  Henry James's Bostonians: the power of paradigm, the power of place / Gert Buelens; title: Listening for consciousness: Henry James, the vox Americana, and The Bostonians / Christopher J. Lukasik; title: The Bostonians, or, Life among the bourgeoisie: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Olive Chancellor's townhouse / Elaine Pigeon; title: James's realism. The other Bostonians: an 'Irish yoke' in James's Boston novel / Eoin Cannon; title: A sport of nature: reform Darwinism and The Bostonians / Andrew Scheiber; title: 'Nobody tells fibs in Boston': the newspaper and the novel in The Bostonians / Sari Edelstein; title: Boston as a state of mind. Boston at sea: dislocating the city in 'The Patagonia' / Anne-Claire LeReste; title: Plunging backward into space: James's Boston and his sense of his past in the American scene / Christine DeVine; title: Claiming Boston.  'A great little personage': Henry James, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and the Boston cultural tradition / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi; title: James, the Bostonian / Pierre A. Walker.