Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism

ISBN-13: 9781032093413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

June Hee Chung

Opis

Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Henry James, Commercial Cosmopolitanism, and the Historical Formation of Mass Culture

Chapter 1 Traditional Cosmopolitanism and Mass Culture in James’s Early Fiction

Chapter 2 The Anglo-American Newspaper Industry, Commercialized Celebrity, and the New Journalistic Style

Chapter 3 Writing Machines: The Question of Cosmopolitan Opportunities for

Mass-Produced Short Fiction

Chapter 4 Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a

Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors

Chapter 5 The Sacred in the Profane: "The Old Things" and Spiritual Realism in

Summersoft and The Wings of the Dove

Chapter 6 That "Rare Power of Purchase:" The Material Advantage of Acquiring

Cosmopolitan Skills in The Golden Bowl

Epilogue Art Consumption in James’s Last Writings

Index

O autorze

June Hee Chung is Associate Professor of late-19^th and early-20^th Century American literature at DePaul University in Chicago. Her work centers on the intersections of commercial practices and cosmopolitanism in the arts. She has published essays on Henry James and economic history for American Literature, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press, and she is completing a book on American Orientalism and decorative material culture in early-20^th century women’s fiction.