Enacting History in Henry James: Narrative, Power, and Ethics

ISBN: 9780521121453 出版年：1997 页码：233 Gert Buelens Cambridge University Press

Introduction Gert Buelens 1. Power relations in the novels of James: the 'liberal' and the 'radical' version Winfried Fluck 2. Multiple germs, metaphorical systems, and moral fluctuation in The Ambassadors Richard A. Hocks 3. James and the ethics of control: aspiring architects and their floating creatures Sarah B. Daugherty 4. James and the shadow of the Roman Empire: manners and the consenting victim Adrian Poole 5. What Maisie Knew: Henry James's Bildungsroman of the artist as queer moralist Alfred Habegger 6. The double narrative of 'The Beast in the Jungle': ethical plot, ironical plot and the play of power Michiel W. Heyns 7. Homoeroticism, identity and agency in James's late tales Hugh Stevens 8.'A Provision Full of Responsibilities': Senses of the past in Henry James's fourth phase David McWhirter 9. Possessing the American scene: race and vulgarity, seduction and judgment Gert Buelens 10. History, narrative, and responsibility: speech acts in 'The Aspern Papers' J. Hillis Miller Index.