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Death in Henry James

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  • © 2005

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  1. Andrew Cutting
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Cutting
    Pages 1-18

  3. Violence Ashamed: Sacrifice in Roderick Hudson

    • Andrew Cutting
    Pages 19-48

  4. Corpses and the Corpus

    • Andrew Cutting
    Pages 49-81

  5. The Wings of the Dove and the Morbid

    • Andrew Cutting
    Pages 82-109

  6. Afterlives

    • Andrew Cutting
    Pages 110-138

  7. Demography in The Portrait of a Lady

    • Andrew Cutting
    Pages 139-168

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 169-198
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About this book

Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James's fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies. Combining formal analysis and close reading with theoretical and historical approaches and focusing on key novels and tales from across James's career, Andrew Cutting explores five instances of Jamesian death: sacrifice, the corpse, morbidity, afterlife and demography. This is the first full-length study of this subject.

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'There are two problems with Cutting's enterprise: life, and death. They are brilliantly brought together in the most innovative section of his work, through the image of a cast of Henry James's face which also provides his wonderfully disturbing dust jacket.' - Times Literary Supplement

About the author

ANDREW CUTTING is Senior Lecturer in Humanities Information Technology in the Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages at London Metropolitan University, UK.

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