Henry James's Europe
Heritage and Transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and pla...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 janvier 2013
ISBN numérique : 978-1-906924-38-6
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2011
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-906924-37-9
Nombre de pages : 316
Dennis Tredy
PrefaceAdrian Harding
On ‘The European Society of Jamesian Studies’I. Ethics and Aesthetics
Jean Gooder
1. Henry James on Opening the Door to the DevilEsther Sánchez-Pardo
3. James’s Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption, and Cultural CritiqueEric Savoy
4. Bad InvestmentsII. French and Italian Hours
Agnès Derail-Imbert
7. French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie KnewJacek Gutorow
8. Figures of Fulfillment: James and “a Sense of Italy”Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
9. The Aspern Papers: From Florence to an Intertextual City, VeniceEnrico Botta
10. The Wavering Ruins of The AmericanIII. Appropriating European Thematics
Simone Francescato
12. A Discordance Between the Self and the World: The Collector in Balzac’s Cousin Pons and James’s ‘Adina’Max Duperray
13 ‘Déjà Vu’ in ‘The Turn of the Screw’IV. Allusion
Angus Wrenn
14. Some Allusions in the Early StoriesOliver Herford
16. James and the Habit of AllusionV. Performance
Nelly Valtat-Comet
17. The Absent Writer in The Tragic MuseRichard Anker
18. James and the “Paradox of the Comedian”Hubert Teyssandier
19. Benjamin Britten’s Appropriation of James in Owen WingraveVI. Authorship and Self-Representation
Eleftheria Arapoglou
20. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American SceneJakob Stougaard-Nielsen
21. James’s Faces: Appearance, Absorption and the Aesthetic Significance of the FacePaula Marantz Cohen
22. From Copying to Revision: The American to The AmbassadorsPierre A. Walker
23. Friction with the Publishers, or How James Manipulated his Editors in the Early 1870’sJohn Holland
24. Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, VisionAs an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics—which ultimately lead to a profound reevaluation of his writing. With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical and personal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.
Dennis Tredy is a tenured associate professor (maître de conférences) at the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he teaches American Literature and Creative Writing. He has published numerous articles on the works of Henry James, Truman Capote and Vladimir Nabokov, and his doctoral thesis of 2002 dealt with The ‘Innocent Reflector’ and Its Function in the Works of Henry James’s ‘Experimental Period’. His most recent studies of Henry James have dealt with the reception of James’s work in Europe, with James’s reception of English and French authors, and with film adaptations of the works of James.
Annick Duperray is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at the Université of Provence (Aix-Marseille Université). She is volume editor for two of the four volumes of the critical edition of Henry James’s Nouvelles complètes (Editions Gallimard/Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2003). Her publications include an analytical study of Henry James’s tales, Echec et écriture : essai sur les nouvelles d’Henry James (1993) and a contribution to Henry James in Context (David McWhirter ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010). She also edited The Reception of Henry James in Europe (Continuum Books, 2006).
Adrian Harding teaches Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris and American Literature at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille). Besides poetry, his publications include Blinds, a Study of the Aesthetics of Fiction (Lebeer Hossmann, 1985) and A Survey of English Literature: the 20th Century (Dunod, 1992). He has written extensively on modern narrative, on poetics and on contemporary art, including articles on realism and narrative poetics in Henry James. His most recent book, with photographs by Alecio de Andrade and a preface by Edgar Morin, is Louvre Blinds: Le Louvre et ses visiteurs (Le Passage, 2009).

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