Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton
Author:   Jessica Levine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415864978


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   03 September 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton


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Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued discretion, the key concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion marks not only the author's relationship to their subject matter but also the behavior of the characters in the fiction. This study takes into particular account the influence of the French literary tradition on these two authors. At the crossroads of the new freedom of expression opened up by French realism and the persisting puritanical standards of their American audiences, James and Wharton sough safe ways to address adult sexuality, and the French theme of adulterous love in particular.

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Author:   Jessica Levine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780415864978


ISBN 10:   0415864976
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   03 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction The Age of Discretion; Part 1 Censorship/Self-Censorship in James and Wharton; Chapter 1 Early James; Chapter 2 “The Old Maid” in the 1920s Marketplace; Part 2 French Classicism and the Discreet Imagination; Chapter 3 “Madame de Mauves” as James's La Princesse de Clèves; Chapter 4 Classical Heroines and Voyeurism in The Reef; Part 3 Displacements of the Adultery Plot; Chapter 5 Handling the “Adulterine Element” in The Ambassadors; Chapter 6 The Age of Innocence and the European Novel of Adultery; epilogue The End of the Age of Discretion;

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