Henry James and Sexuality
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 6 November 2008
- ISBN 9780521089852
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 229x152x13 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
First application of 'queer theory' to Henry James; provides a radical and original interpretation of all his writings.
MoreLong description:
In Henry James and Sexuality, Hugh Stevens argues for a new interpretation of James's fiction. Stevens argues that James's writing contains daring and radical representations of transgressive desires and marginalized sexual identities. He demonstrates the importance of incestuous desire, masochistic fantasy, and same-sex passions in a body of fiction which ostensibly conforms to, while ironically mocking, the contemporary moral and publishing codes James faced. James critiques the very notion of sexual identity, and depicts the radical play of desires which exceed and disrupt any stable construction of identity. In a number of his major novels and tales, Stevens argues, James anticipates the main features of modern 'gay' or 'queer' fiction through plots and narrative strategies, which opposes heterosexual marriage and homo-erotic friendship. This original and exciting work will transform our understanding of this most enigmatic of writers.
"Combining extraordinary theoretical range and subtlety with deft readings of a swath of Jamesian prose, Hugh Stevens makes the most comprehensive and compelling argument to date for James's place in queer literary history, setting a high standard indeed for interlocutors to come." Henry James Review
Table of Contents:
1. Henry James and the languages of sex; 2. Gender and representation in The Wings of the Dove; 3. Sexuality and the aesthetic in The Golden Bowl; 4. The Eroticism of prohibition: masochism and the law in Roderick Hudson; 5. Queer plotting: The Bostonians and the Princess Casamassima; 6. James's late short fiction and the spectacle of modern homosexuality; 7. Suicide and blackmail: James's 'poor sensitive gentlemen'; Conclusion: 'that queer monster the artist'; Bibliography.
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