Henry James and the 'Woman Business' by Alfred Habegger

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Henry James and the 'Woman Business' by Alfred Habegger

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This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. The author brings to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions.

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Henry James and the 'Woman Business' by Alfred Habegger

This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions. This is the first book to investigate his father's bizarre lifelong struggle with free love and feminism, a struggle that played a major role in shaping James. The book also shows how seriously he distorted the truth about the cousin, Minnie Temple, whose self-assertive image inspired him; and how indebted he was to certain American women writers whom he attacked in reviews but whose plots and heroines he appropriated in his own fiction.
Alfred Habegger is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kansas. His previous biographies are The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. and the highly acclaimed My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. He lives in northeast Oregon.
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ISBN 13 9780521609432
ISBN 10 0521609437
Title Henry James and the 'Woman Business'
Author Alfred Habegger
Series Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2004-08-26
Number of pages 300
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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