It was the new graduate student reception for my class, the first social event of my first semester in the best graduate department in my field in the country. I was full of myself, as we all were, full of pride at having made the final cut, full of arrogance at our newly recorded membership among the privileged few, the intellectual elite-this country's real aristocracy, my parents told me-full of confidence in our intellectual ability to prevail, to fashion original and powerful views about some topic we represented to ourselves only vaguely. I was a bit late and noticed that many turned to look at-no, scrutinize-me as I entered the room. I congratulated myself on having selected for wear my black velvet, bellbottom pants suit (yes, it was that long ago) with the cream silk blouse and crimson vest. One of the secretaries who'd

Passing for White, Passing for Black

Art. XXI.—Sex in Education, or A Fair Chance for the Girls.

Introduction: The Politics of Passing

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history

The Cambridge history of the American novel

1. Introduction: frontier instances 2. In Jonathan Edwards's room of the idea 3. Emerson's moving pictures 4. William James's feeling of if 5. Henry James's more than rational distortion 6. Wallace Stevens's radiant and productive atmosphere 7. Gertrude Stein, James's Melancthon/a Bibliography Index.

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A Natural History of Pragmatism

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The lessons of the father: Henry James, Sr., on sexual difference 3. Precocious incest: first novels by Louisa May Alcott and Henry James 4. The chains of literature: Elizabeth Stoddard and Henry James 5. Anne Moncure Crane Seemuller: Henry James's Jocasta 6. Minnie Temple's death and the birth of Henry James's imagination 7. The fatherless heroine and the filial son: deep background for The Portrait of a Lady 8. The return of the father in The Bostonians 9. Conclusion Notes Index.

Gender, fantasy, and realism in American literature

A biography of the passionate, contradictory father of William, Henry and Alice James. The author counters the popular view - a view that the James family perpetuated - that Henry James Sr was a ""benignant"" man who devoted himself to the good of his children, preached tolerance, and practised self-effacement. Instead, he shows us a man who developed a convoluted personal philosophy to account for his own feelings of pain and guilt, his conviction of his essential sinfulness and capacity for evil, and his fragile sense of self. The work sets Henry James Sr in the broader intellectual and cultural context of his age. As well as throwing light on the development of James's two sons, it is also a study of how families work.

Alfred Habegger

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Gender, fantasy, and realism in American literature

The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr.