Henry James and the Visual
In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his readers' sense of vision to dramatize the ambiguity of American citizenship in scenes of tense encounter with Europeans. By reviving the eighteenth-century debates over beauty, sublimity, and the picturesque, James weaves into his narratives the national politics of emancipation, immigration, and Indian Removal. For James, visual experience is crucial to the American communal identity, a position that challenged prominent anthropologists as they defined concepts of race and culture in ways that con…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-521-88066-4
- EAN: 9780521880664
- Produktnummer: 3206072
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 563 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 563
Über den Autor
Kendall Johnson is Assistant Professor of English at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
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