Overview
- Highlights the influence, interaction, and correspondence between James and his work and women writers
- Contributes to a contemporary feminist analysis of Henry James’s work
- Emphasizes transatlantic scholarship across historical periods
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- queer feminist
- queer literary theory
- feminist literary theory
- Annie Adams Fields
- The Bostonians
- The American Scene
- The Europeans
- post-World War II Paris
- Le Bete dans la jungle
- The Beast in the Jungle
- post-colonialism
- gender studies
- Wings of a Dove
- Portrait of a Lady
- Turn of the Screw
- Henry James and Queer Theory
- The Aspern Papers
- colonialism and Henry James
- Henry James Travel Writing
- lesbianism in Henry James
About this book
This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless share complex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history of feminist scholarly responses to their work. Kathryn Wichelns draws upon James’ correspondence with Fields, as well as Dickinson’s and Duras’s revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of his project. By contextualizing his writing within a diverse set of feminist perspectives, each grounded in a specific time and place, as well as nineteenth-century views of queer male sexuality, Wichelns demonstrates the centrality of Henry James’s ambivalent identifications with women tohis work.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kathryn Wichelns is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Henry James's Feminist Afterlives
Book Subtitle: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras
Authors: Kathryn Wichelns
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71800-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89107-1Published: 19 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71800-2Published: 28 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 178
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory