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The prefaces of Henry James : framing the modern reader
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The prefaces of Henry James : framing the modern reader

Author: John H Pearson
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Henry James
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John H Pearson
ISBN: 0271016590 9780271016597
OCLC Number: 35249429
Description: 168 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: What's in a preface? what's in a frame? what's in it for James? -- The politics of the preface -- Tales of origin and James's aesthetic memory -- Authorial performance and subversions of reading : The wings of the dove and What Maisie knew -- Meaning, context, intertext : a preface to ten tales -- Consciousness and the construction of identity : reading The portrait of a lady through the preface.
Responsibility: John H. Pearson.

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