1st Edition

Henry James' Travel Fiction and Non-Fiction

Edited By Mirosława Buchholtz Copyright 2019
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Each chapter addresses a different selection of James’ fiction and non-fiction and offers a different approach towards the ideas that are still with us today: history reflected in art and architecture, the tourist gaze,... Read more

Introduction  Mirosława Buchholtz  1. The Ambassadors, The American Scene, and the Transnational Turn in American Studies  Allen Hibbard  2. The Sentimental Tourist in Rural France: Henry James’s Pictures of History in A Little Tour in France (1884, 1900)  Ágnes Zsófia Kovács  3. Self-Inscription and Autoethnography in Henry James’s Travel Writing  Selma Mokrani  4. Roderick’s Body, Winckelmann, and the Screen of the Touristic Gaze  Geoff Bender  5. Travelling Curios in a Playful Spirit: Henry James’s American Museum  Hitomi Nabae  6. Back in "the terrible city": Henry James and his Characters in Search of the Past and a less Polarized Future  Urszula Gołębiowska

Biography

Miroslawa Buchholtz is Professor of English and Head of the English Department at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. She has published academic books, including a monograph on Henry James. She is former President of the Henry James Society.