Meaning in Henry James

by Millicent Bell

Book Overview

Henry James rebelled intuitively against the tyranny and banality of plots. Believing a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies, he hung the evocative shadow of "what might have been" over much of what he wrote. Yet James also realized that no life can be lived--and no story written--except by submission to some outcome. The limiting conventions of society and literature are, he found, almost inescapable. In a major,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674557638
• ISBN13: 9780674557635
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"