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Henry James:History, Narrative, Fiction (Oxford English Monographs) '93

Jolly, Roslyn  著

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価格 \37,961(税込)         
発行年月 1993年11月
出版社/提供元
Oxford at the Clarendon Press
出版国 イギリス
言語 英語
媒体 冊子
装丁 hardcover
ページ数/巻数 250 p.
ジャンル 洋書/人文科学/文学/アメリカ文学
ISBN 9780198119852
商品コード 0209320592
個人件名 James, H.
本の性格 学術書
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内容

This is a study of Henry James's changing attitudes to history as a narrative model, tracing the development from his early interest in `scientific' historiography to the radically anti-historical character of his late works. James's use of the term `history' was influenced by developments in nineteenth-century historiography, but was also embedded in the complex of defensive manoeuvres through which Victorian culture sought to control its anxiety about the power of fiction. Reading James's novels in the light of contemporary debates about the morality and authorship and the politics of reading, Dr Jolly finds that fiction develops from being history's censored `other' in the early works to being a valued mode of problem-solving in the later fiction. This shift may be seen as the product of James's increasing engagement with the reading practices of groups marginalized by high Victorian culture: women, the working class, other cultures, and the avant-garde. The book ends with a consideration of the challenge posed to James's radical anti-historical epistemology by the unprecedented violence of twentieth-century history. Drawing on contemporary narrative theory, and providing illuminating readings of a large number of James's novels, Roslyn Jolly had written a sophisticated and persuasive analysis of James's shifting definitions of history and fiction.

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