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  • Henry James Framed

    Material Representations of the Master

    by Michael Anesko ...
    Henry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art. Throughout his life, James demonstrated an abiding interest in—some would say an obsession with—the visual arts. In his most influential testaments about the art of fiction, James frequently invoked a deeply felt analogy between imaginative writing and painting. At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Monopolizing the Master

    Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship

    by Michael Anesko ...
    Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Henry James and Queer Filiation

    Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era

    by Michael Anesko ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite figures — most now forgotten or unknown — offer even more suggestive evidence of some of the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Generous Mistakes

    Incidents of Error in Henry James

    by Michael Anesko ...
    By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James's major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the books we know--or think we know. Through a better understanding of the conditions of production that affected James's author function, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Monopolizing the Master

    Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship

    by Michael Anesko ...
    Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Travels with Henry James

    by Henry James ...
    "To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companion. Our guide is a curious, engaged observer not only of landscapes and streets and cathedrals but also of paintings and plays and the characteristics -- national, social, and individual -- of the people we encounter at his side. This is a book to be ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    by Michael Gorra ...
    A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Henry James

    The Imagination of Genius, A Biography

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    A stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The AmbassadorsHenry James is an absorbing portrait of one of the most complex and influential nineteenth-century American writers. Fred Kaplan examines James's brilliant and troubled family—from his brother, a famous psychologist, to his sister, who fought with mental illness—and charts its influence on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Gifts from Chance

    A Biography of Edith Wharton

    by Shari Benstock ...

    $21.59 USD

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    by Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Series Book 22 - Critical Lives
    The life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the quintessential writer’s biography – great works arising from a life of despair, poverty, alcoholism, and a mysterious solitary death. It may seem like a cliché now, but it was Poe who helped shape this idea in the popular imagination. Despite of – or inspired by – his many hardships, Poe wrote some of the most well-known poems and intricately crafted ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Illustration of the Master

    Henry James and the Magazine Revolution

    by Amy Tucker ...
    The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. The book re-examines James's stories, criticism, and travel essays in light of the explosive growth of the magazine industry in the United States and abroad at the turn of the century. Using previously unpublished ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Vintage Magazines Identifier and Price Guide

    by Richard & Elaine Russell ...
    A guide to collecting vintage and antiquarian magazines showing major contributors as well as less well-known ones as well as the history and representative prices for most collectable magazines. Guides the reader/researcher through the history of the publications and the contributors that add to a magazine's worth. Originally published as: "Antique Traders Vintage Magazine price Guide". ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus