Death in Henry James

Cutting, A.

Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James's fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies. Combining formal analysis and close reading with theoretical and historical approaches and focusing on key novels and tales from across James's career, Andrew Cutting explores five instances of Jamesian death: sacrifice, the corpse, morbidity, afterlife and demography. This is the first full-length study of this subject.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-08-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403993366

DOI: 10.1057/9780230285996

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 198