Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text and brief titles
- Introduction: the nature of inheritance
- 1 Autobiography and the writing of significance
- 2 Reading the ‘man without a handle’: Emerson and the construction of a partial portrait
- 3 ‘Under certain circumstances’: Jamesian reflections on the fall
- 4 Doing ‘public justice’: New England reform and The Bostonians
- 5 Breaking the mould
- Conclusion: ‘the imminence of a transformation scene’
- Notes
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text and brief titles
- Introduction: the nature of inheritance
- 1 Autobiography and the writing of significance
- 2 Reading the ‘man without a handle’: Emerson and the construction of a partial portrait
- 3 ‘Under certain circumstances’: Jamesian reflections on the fall
- 4 Doing ‘public justice’: New England reform and The Bostonians
- 5 Breaking the mould
- Conclusion: ‘the imminence of a transformation scene’
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Henry James and the Father Question , pp. 209 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002