Henry James and the imagination of pleasure /
Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class socie...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| ISBN: | 0511019033 9780511019036 0511045204 9780511045202 0511120281 9780511120282 9780521811699 0521811694 9780511485114 0511485115 128015960X 9781280159602 9780521119856 0521119855 |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw'
- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors
- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove
- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.