A SUPERFICIAL READING OF HENRY JAMES: PREOCCUPATIONS WITH THE MATERIAL WORLD

by THOMAS J OTTEN

The Ohio State University Press, 2006

Cloth: 978-0-8142-1026-0

Library of Congress Classification PS2127.M37O88 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 813.4

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Quotations
Introduction
		 	 
Part I	Turning to Matter in Henry James
Chapter 1	Revolving Heroines		 
Chapter 2	A Culture of Faulty Parallels		 
Part II	Practical Aesthetics
Chapter 3	The Properties of Touch
		(The Spoils of Poynton)
Chapter 4	The Reproduction of Painting
		(¿The Liar,¿ ¿The Real Thing,¿ The Tragic Muse)
Chapter 5	Bodies, Papers, and Persons
		(The Aspern Papers, ¿The Birthplace¿)
Chapter 6	Adulterous Matter
		(A London Life, The Sacred Fount, The Ambassadors)
Part III	 The Matter of Literary Criticism		
Chapter 7	Literary Studies as Sublimated Physicality
Chapter 8	New Materialism: The Color of Air
Notes
Index

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