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The Portable Henry James

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

30.12.2003

Herausgeber

John Auchard

Verlag

Penguin Books UK

Seitenzahl

674

Maße (L/B/H)

19,7/12,9/3,6 cm

Gewicht

701 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-14-243767-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

30.12.2003

Herausgeber

John Auchard

Verlag

Penguin Books UK

Seitenzahl

674

Maße (L/B/H)

19,7/12,9/3,6 cm

Gewicht

701 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-14-243767-4

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The Portable Henry James

  • The Portable Henry JamesIntroduction
    Chronology
    Acknowledgments

    I. Fiction

    Daisy Miller: A Study
    "Brooksmith"
    "The Real Thing"
    "The Middle Years"

    The Turn of the Screw
    "The Beast in the Jungle
    "The Jolly Corner"

    II. Revisions

    Daisy Miller: 1879 and 1909

    The Portrait of a Lady: 1881 and 1908

    III. Travel

    From English Hours
    "London at Midsummer"

    From Italian Hours
    "Two Old Houses and Three Young Women"
    "The Saint's Afternoon and Others"

    From The American Scene
    "The Bowery and Thereabouts"

    from "Boston"
    "France"

    IV. Criticism

    On Whitman
    "brute sublimity"

    On Baudelaire
    "This is not Evil...it is simply the nasty!"

    From Hawthorne
    "No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church"

    On Emerson
    "salt is wanting"

    "The Art of Fiction"
    "the chamber of consciousness"
    "Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost!"

    From "the Question of Our Speech"
    "Our national use of the vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly"

    From "The Lesson of Balzac"
    "plated and burnished and bright"

    On Shakespeare
    the "absolute value of Style"

    From the Preface to Roderick Hudson
    "Really, universally, relations stop nowhere"

    From the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady
    "The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million"

    From the Preface to The Tragic Muse
    "large loose baggy monsters"

    V. Autobiography

    The peaches d'antan
    from A Small Boy and Others

    The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil
    from A Small Boy and Others

    A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady
    from A Small Boy and Others

    The Galerie d'Apollon
    from A Small Boy and Others

    An obscure hurt
    from Notes of a Son and Brother

    The death of Minnie Temple
    from Notes of a Son and Brother

    At the grave of Alice James
    from The Complete Notebooks

    VI. Correspondence

    A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend
    To Edgar Van Winkle; 1856

    On the Grand Tour
    To William James; October 30, 1869

    Henry James, expatriate
    To the James family; November 1, 1875

    The literary scene in Paris
    To William Dean Howells; May 28, 1876

    Growing fame
    To Miss Abbey Alger; November 21, 1881

    The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson
    To Robert Louis Stevenson; July 31, 1888

    The death of Alice James
    To William James; March 8, 1892

    The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen
    To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 9, 1902
    To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 28, 1902

    The death of William James
    To Thomas Sergeant Perry; September 2, 1910
    To H. G. Wells; September 11, 1910

    The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells
    To H. G. Wells; July 6, 1915
    To H. G. Wells; July 10, 1915

    VII. Definition and Description

    An American encounters some aristocrats
    from The American

    An ambitious young Frenchwoman
    from The American

    Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper
    from "The Comedie Francaise in London"

    An American education
    from The Portrait of a Lady

    An American is corrected on what constitutes "the self"
    from The Portrait of a Lady

    An absolutely unmarried woman
    from The Bostonians

    Philistine decor
    from The Spils of Poynton

    The really rich
    from The Wings of the Dove

    New York identity
    from The Wings of the Dove

    A Venetian majordomo
    from The Wings of the Dove

    Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play
    from The Wings of the Dove

    A private thought
    from the Wings of the Dove

    The seduction of Europe
    from the Ambassadors

    A femme du monde
    from The Ambassadors

    An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman
    from The Golden Bowl

    Colossal immodesty
    from The American Scene

    The individual Jew
    from The American Scene

    New York City Hall
    from The American Scene

    The absence of penetralia
    from The American Scene

    New York Power
    from The American Scene

    American teeth
    from The American Scene

    A young priest apart from the Roman carnival
    from Italian Hours

    VIII. Names

    IX. Parody

    Frank Moore Colby
    from "In Darkest James"

    Max Beerbohm
    " 'The Mote in the Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes"

    X. Legacy

    W.H. Auden
    "At the Grave of Henry James"

    Joseph Conrad
    from "Henry James: An Appreciation"

    T.S. Eliot
    from "In Memory"

    Graham Greene
    from "Henry James: The Private Universe"

    Ezra Pound
    from "Henry James"

    Edith Wharton
    from A Backward Glance

    Virginia Woolf
    from "Review of The Letters of Henry James"

    Suggestions for Further Reading

    Selected Bibliography