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Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915
Oliver Herford
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Description for Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915
Hardcover. Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and ... Read more
Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198734802
SKU
V9780198734802
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About Oliver Herford
Oliver Herford is a Birmingham Fellow in English Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century at the University of Birmingham. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and University College London, and has taught in the Universities of London, Oxford, and Birmingham, including three years as Darby Fellow and Tutor in English at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is currently editing ... Read more
Reviews for Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915
This fine, careful, and illuminating study is a welcome excursion into Jamess rarely explored late work. The late style may be late - but is also very stylish.
Hazel Hutchison (University of Aberdeen), Modern Language Review 2017
The academic Oliver Herford achieved something, if not impossible, then very unlikely: a new contribution to our understanding of the life ... Read more
Hazel Hutchison (University of Aberdeen), Modern Language Review 2017
The academic Oliver Herford achieved something, if not impossible, then very unlikely: a new contribution to our understanding of the life ... Read more