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Henry James's thwarted love

Author: Wendy Graham
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This provocative book argues that in his fiction Henry James was more canny about sexual identities, more focused on sexual pleasure, and more insistent on flouting heterosexual convention than has been acknowledged by his critics and biographers. Without leaping to the construction of a "gay" Henry James, whose writings aver a conscious sexual preference, the author demonstrates James's deep engagement with the  Read more...
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Named Person: Henry James; Henry James; Henry James; Henry James; Henry James
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Wendy Graham
ISBN: 0804735395 9780804735391 0804738475 9780804738477
OCLC Number: 41017404
Description: xii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Wendy Graham.
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Abstract:

"This provocative book argues that in his fiction Henry James was more canny about sexual identities, more focused on sexual pleasure, and more insistent on flouting heterosexual convention than has been acknowledged by his critics and biographers. Without leaping to the construction of a "gay" Henry James, whose writings aver a conscious sexual preference, the author demonstrates James's deep engagement with the construct of sexual "inversion," his familiarity with the tropes and traffic of the late-Victorian sexual underground, and his resistance to the cultural codes and institutions that disciplined social and private behavior."--Jacket.

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