The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James

by John Carlos Rowe

Book Overview

Drawing on Henry James's reputation as a master of modern literature, John Carlos Rowe investigates the way in which various theoretical approaches formulate different conceptions of the "major author." Rowe examines James from the perspectives of the psychology of literary influence, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary phenomenology and impressionism, and reader-response criticism, thereby transforming a literay monument into the telling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299099709
• ISBN13: 9780299099701
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 288 Pages