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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure Book

Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only bad women could be sexual. She explores the emphasis James placed on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.Read More

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  • 0521119855
  • 9780521119856
  • Tessa Hadley
  • 17 September 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 216
  • 1
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