Alicia Rix

Henry James and the Writing of Transport

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For students of Henry James, this book offers new critical perspectives on both established and forgotten texts. More broadly, it is for anyone interested in the enormous changes in transport that occurred throughout the nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, and their impact upon social life, reading habits, and literary genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108473170
• ISBN-10: 1108473172
• Artikelnr.: 72598357

Autorenporträt

Alicia Rix has published in The Henry James Review, Critical Quarterly, Symbiosis, and The Journal of Modern Literature, and appeared on BBC4's 'Literary Landscape: The Coast'. She also regularly reviews for The Times Literary Supplement.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the question of conveyance
1. 'An emphatic zero': crossing the ocean in the ambassadors (1903) and 'the Patagonia' (1888)
2. 'The rotary motion': cabs and carriages in what maisie knew (1897) and the golden bowl (1904)
3. 'Suffered transfer': train journeys in the sacred fount (1901) and the American scene (1907)
4. 'The lives of others': motoring in 'the velvet glove' (1909)
5. 'Henry's bicycle': cycling in 'the papers' (1903)
Epilogue: 'his kind of traffic'
Bibliography.