Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene
by James, Henry:
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- ISBN 10
- 080322589X
- ISBN 13
- 9780803225893
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-University of Nebraska Press (1999)-. First edition first impression 1999. Pierre A. Walker (Editor). xliv+226 pages. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. "Henry James on Culture" is a collection of eighteen articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. Eight of them have never before been published in book form, and the remainder have not, until now, been easily accessible. These essays reveal a previously neglected side of James. Some of the writings concern British imperial politics and crises in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and South Africa. Others were written during and after James's 1904-5 tour of the United States. They focus on questions of gender and manners and complement the best-known work resulting from that trip, The American Scene. Also included is James's only publication on religion and metaphysics, "Is There a Life after Death?". It presents James's view of the possibility of an afterlife and is also interesting in the light of work by his philosopher brother and his theologian father on the same subject. Finally, the book groups for the first time in one volume all of James's writings on the First World War. Deeply affected by the war's outbreak, James wrote touching and profound essays on the meaning of the war to the world he knew. These articles are among the great works of First World War literature. Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene 080322589x
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- Title
- Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene
- Author
- James, Henry:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 080322589X
- ISBN 13
- 9780803225893
- Publisher
- -University of Nebraska Press (1999)-
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- This edition first published
- 1999-05
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