1st Edition
Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels
By Maya Higashi Wakana
Copyright 2009
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Wanting to Want to Be Straight and Right; Chapter 2 The Stigmatized and the Normals; Chapter 3 Intimacy and Sexuality; Chapter 4 Teams, Teammates, and Intimacy; Chapter 101 Conclusion;
Biography
Maya Higashi Wakana is a Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
