Title: Henry James's thwarted love
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: American Psychological fiction, Androgyny (Psychology) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Gay men in literature, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Love in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological fiction, American, Sex in literature, Sexual abstinence in literature, Sublimation (Psychology) in literature, James, henry, 1843-1916, Psychological fiction, history and criticism
Places: United States
People: Henry James (1843-1916)
LC classification: PS2127.S48 G72 1999