Henry James and the Mass Market

ISBN-13: 9780817311988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str.

Marcia Jacobson

Opis

The author considers James s work from The Bostonians to The Awkward Age from 1883 to 1889 a period in which James was resident in London and searching for material to replace the international theme. Jacobson considers this context in relation to the emergence of a mass market and sees James s major fiction of this period as an attempt to exploit the conventions of popular fiction in an analysis of his society s assumptions. James s work at this time must also be viewed as an artist s effort to secure popular attention and acceptance. Such an approach allows Jacobson to treat James s French period and his experimental period as a unit and to counter the myth that James was an ivory tower artist.
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