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Henry James stands as one of the preeminent writers of the late 19th/early 20th century period; however, the world he wrote about has since disappeared. This collection of essays provides pedagogical assistance for several of his short stories--including "The Jolly Corner", "The Europeans" and "Travelling Companions"--and his most anthologized longer works. It is aimed at instructors who do not consider themselves experts on James' work. Each essay approaches a single work, offering a critical analysis as well as providing pedagogical suggestions for how to introduce both the work and the relevant social issues to students of the 21st century.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Setting the Scene
Kathleen McDonald
"[She] is not, after all, a Comanche savage": Reading Daisy Miller and Teaching Inclusive Excellence
Jayson Baker
Gold-Digger with a Purpose: Class Delusions and Disparities in "A Landscape-painter"
Katherine Shloznikova
Painting "a picture out of her setting": The Jamesian Picturesque, the Claude Mirror Effect, and the Racial and National Dynamic in The Europeans
Nevena Stojanovic
Providing Contexts and Contextualization: Prosper Mérimée's "La Vénus d'Ille," James' "The Last of the Valerii," and The Portrait of a Lady
Anne S. Jung
"Bedizened in this unnatural garb": Fashion, Rivalry, and the Supernatural in Teaching "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"
Alissa Burger
Beneath an Italian Sky: Europe and Artistic Education in "Travelling Companions" and "The Madonna of the Future"
Bruno Penteado
Memory, Imagination, and the Recovery of the Past in the Present: The American Scene and "The Jolly Corner"
Ronald A. Bosco
The Specter of Tradition and Liberal Agency in "Owen Wingrave"
Mercedes García Palma
What to Do with a Dead Author: A Study of Influence Between Henry James' "The Figure in the Carpet" and Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author"
Jamie Bowman
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