The Undependable Bonds of Blood

ISBN-13: 9783844322903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 132 str.

Benjamin Hart Fishkin

Opis

The novels of Henry James provide a wide spectrum of figures that lack the flexibility to adapt and meet the needs of their children. Louise Barnett asserts that Jamess literary families are a group of people "whose underlying constant is the tragic paradox that blood relations are both essential and unreliable" (Barnett, 144). The figures placed within these settings are often a grotesque conglomerate of unsuccessful marriages and absentee relations in which parents practice unhealthy patterns of behavior and negatively influence their children before they have a chance to mature into full grown adults.

O autorze

Dr. Benjamin Hart Fishkin is a scholar of nineteenth century literature. He teaches at Tuskegee University. Dr. Fishkin was awarded a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Alabama where he served as a Junior Fellow in The Blount Undergraduate Initiative.