Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton

ISBN-13: 9780415938600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 250 str.

Jessica Levine;Levine Jessica

Opis

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction The Age of Discretion; Part 1 Censorship/Self-Censorship in James and Wharton; Chapter 1 Early James; Chapter 2 “The Old Maid” in the 1920s Marketplace; Part 2 French Classicism and the Discreet Imagination; Chapter 3 “Madame de Mauves” as James's La Princesse de Clèves; Chapter 4 Classical Heroines and Voyeurism in The Reef; Part 3 Displacements of the Adultery Plot; Chapter 5 Handling the “Adulterine Element” in The Ambassadors; Chapter 6 The Age of Innocence and the European Novel of Adultery; epilogue The End of the Age of Discretion;

O autorze

Jessica Levine