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Home Browse Books Book details, Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays o. .A collection of 18 articles by novelist James on the social and political issues of his day.Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene. By Henry James, Pierre A. Walker. The essays explore such issues as the possibility of life after death; British imperial politics and crises in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and South Africa, questions of gender in the United States, and the meaning of World War I. Excerpt.

A collection of eighteen articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his da. It focuses on questions of gender and manners and complements the work resulting from James' 1904-5 tour of the United States.

A collection of eighteen articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. This title deals with British imperial politics and crises in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and South Africa.

Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English and the founder and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is the author of Henry James and the Morality of Fiction. Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James.

Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene. Actresses as Working Women: Their social identity in Victorian culture. London: Routledge, 1991. Ed. Pierre A. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture Vs. Democracy in Adams, James & Santayana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

His acute powers of observation, his unerring feel for social nuance, and his abiding interest in the news, conversations, and controversies of the moment make these essays a witty and entertaining illumination of American, British, European, and colonial society in the years from 1878 to 1917.

Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene New York: Cambridge U.

Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene New York: Cambridge UP. Strong defense of James's sociopolitical stance in the fourth phase of his writing. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P. The question of our speech: the return to aural culture In Metaphor & Memory: Essays (pp. 146-72) New York: Knopf. Sensitive response to " The Question of Our Speech, " questioning several of its assumptions.

Henry James (1843-1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his .

Henry James (1843-1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he directs the Center for Henry James Studies