Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521109963)

In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. In this record of his 1904-5 return to America and in his unfinished novels, The Sense of the Past and The Ivory Tower, he interpreted the social conflicts that seemed to be paralyzing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between "natives" and "aliens," between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Haviland's own method brings historical and theoretical readings into conversation with each other.

Author: Beverly Haviland
ISBN-10: 0521109965
ISBN-13: 9780521109963
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2009
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d