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A Companion to Henry James
Wiley 2009; US$ 228.95Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James’s... more...
Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95This collection traces the vicissitudes of the cultural preoccupation with death in nineteenth-century US writing and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions... more...
American Romanticism and the Marketplace
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 20.00"This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden ."—Choice "[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, engagement with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly... more...
Writers of the American Renaissance
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 161.00The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century... more...
The Illustration of the Master
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 62.50The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. more...
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 32.00Henry James and the Philosophical Novel breaks fresh ground by examining James's unique position as a philosophical novelist. more...
Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it combines topical debates in a manner that is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century. more...
Monopolizing the Master
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 35.00Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation,... more...
Neither Fugitive nor Free
NYU Press 2009; US$ 79.00Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto... more...
Imperfect Unions
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 75.00Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black–white binary that informed them in a wide variety of... more...









