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... contesting ges- tures, affirm the social structures of its time. Henry James seems particularly susceptible to this reading. Was he not a genteel Anglophile who fled the America of the Gilded Age and shrank, one might assume, from engagement in the contests of class, deepening in his lifetime...

..., a truly persuasive book. One awaits the next round with interest. EVELYNBIRGE VITZ New York University James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. By FREDERICKA. POTTLE.New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1985 (1966). xviii + 606 pp...

...Lyon N. Richardson Richard Nicholas Foley. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1944. Pp. 169. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Lyon N. Richardson 371 Henry James: The Major Phase. By F. 0. MATTHIESSEN.New...

... of this latter book, said : “Mr. BIunden has nothing new to tell us CARLJ. WEBER Colby College Henry James and the Expanding Horizon. By OSBORNANDREAS. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1948. Pp. xv+ 179. $3.50. Mr. Andreas’ method...

...Constance Jordan Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Household and the State: Transformations in the Representation of an Analogy from Aristotle to James I Constance Jordan 0f the many forms of analogy that characterized the culture of early...

... to posit within ourselves: a sacred space” (87).One might also pursue what is at stake in the poststructuralist repudiation of identity. Despite Lacan and Althusser, most people at most times do feel that they have a “self of selves,”as William James contended, even if it is true that they have...

...: Masculine Thresholds in Schubert, James, and Freud Lawrence Kramer evenant: a specter, a ghost, a phantom, one who haunts, who R returns, who walks again. From the French rmenir: to come again, return, reappear, haunt, rebegin, recover, regain consciousness, but also to fetch...

...Susan M. Griffin Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 SEEING DOUBLES REFLECTIONS OF THE SELF IN JAMES’S SENSE OF THE PAST By SUSANM. GKIFFIN The Sense ofthe Past has traditionally...

... the heroes blush, “the very antithesis”-or contrary-“of ironic detachment” (p. 186). And innocence, it might be said, is a moral state, and love a moral act, even in the open universe. JAMES ENGELL Haruard University Henry James and the Problem...

...Heath Moon Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 SAVING JAMES FROM MODERNISM HOW TO READ THE SACRED FOUNT By HEATHMOON The subject for decades of the most painstaking analysis, The Sacred Fount, one would expect...

...Joseph Rossi Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 THE ITALLAN POEMS OF THOMAS JAMES MATHIAS By JOSEPH ROSS Those who have recently studied Mathias’ Italian works have been concerned either with his Italian translations...

...Heather Fielding Henry James often criticizes mass culture for having instrumentalized the novel by conditioning readers to reduce the text to its ending. Yet he also suggests that popular visual technologies—cinema and its predecessor, the magic lantern—are uniquely able to compensate for mass...

...Angela Sorby Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Performing Class: James Whitcomb Riley’s Poetry of Distinction Angela Sorby In 1889 the poet James Whitcomb Riley and the prose humorist Bill Nye appeared at Boston’s Tremont Temple in a show sponsored...

...: Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hop- Kim, Marcel Proust, Henry James. By ELLENEVE FRANK. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1979. xv + 31 1 pp. $18.00. For two reasons, Ellen Frank’s book is an important contribution to studies in English of the sister arts. First...

...Beth Blum This essay uses “self-help” guides to James Joyce as an occasion to illuminate the buried history of modernism’s engagement with popular morality. It suggests that the birth of Joyce’s aesthetic—and, by extension, of modernism more broadly—is attributable to early twentieth-century...

...James R. Baker Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 JAMES JOYCE : AFFIRMATION AFTER EXILE By JAMES R. BAKER Nay, shall not such as these have part, because of that high, original purpose which remembering painfully or by way of prophecy...

...Haskell M. Block Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 JAMES JOYCE AND THOMAS HARDY By HASKELLM. BLOCK We do not normally think of the work of James Joyce as in any way related to that of Thomas Hardy. For Joyce had little regard...

... us to hear them. JAMES R. CALDWELL Usiwersity of California Ammican Literary Pioneer: A Biographical Study of James A. Hillhouse. By CHARLESTABB HAZELRIW. New York: Bookman Associates, 1953. Pp. 226. $4.00. Mr. Hazelrigg...

...J. C. Levenson Robert F. Sayre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. xiii + 212 pp. $4.75. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 98 REVIEWS The Examined Self: Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James...

...Stephen L. Mooney Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 JAMES, KEATS, AND THE RELIGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS By STEPHENL. MOONEY Although the principal characters of Henry James’s The Golden Bowl are all experienced travelers...