Performing the Everyday in Henry James’s Late Novels 1st Edition by Maya Higashi Wakana 0754667448 9780754667445

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ISBN 10: 0754667448 

ISBN 13: 9780754667445

Author: Maya Higashi Wakana

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 duplicitous, and goes on to show that James’s art relies significantly on his powerful sense of the agonizing and even dangerous complications of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his work. Centrally informed by social thinkers such as G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana’s study discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James’s late novels. Persuasively argued, and rich in original close readings, her book makes an important contribution to James’s studies and to theories of social interaction.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Wanting to Want to Be Straight and Right Strether’s Liberation in The Ambassadors

Chapter 2 The Stigmatized and the Normals Milly, Densher, and Kate’s Survival in The Wings of the Dove

Chapter 3 Intimacy and Sexuality Challenging the Official Story of Maggie Verver in The Golden Bowl

Chapter 4 Teams, Teammates, and Intimacy The Unofficial Story of Maggie Verver in The Golden Bowl

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