Stuart Burrows

Henry James and the Promise of Fiction (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009419703
• Artikelnr.: 70911229

Autorenporträt

Stuart Burrows is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His first book was A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 (2008). He has won the American Literary Society 1921 Prize in American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Promise of Art
1. Promising Others: The Portrait of a Lady
2. Promising for Others: The Turn of the Screw
3. Promising Oneself: The Ambassadors
4. Promising to Love: The Wings of the Dove
5. Promising to Lie: The Golden Bowl
6. Promising the Future: 'The Beast in the Jungle'
Conclusion. Promising the Past: 'The Figure in the Carpet'
Bibliography
Notes.