Transforming Henry James (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi and Korean Edition)

Over the last few decades, Henry James has been subjected to such an amazing range of interpretive and theoretical reconfigurations that it would seem there is hardly room for any further transformative acts. This collection undertakes to demonstrate that more critical metamorphoses are possible, by bringing together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse range of James's fiction and non-fiction. The essays investigate James's life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites, offer theoretically informed readings of his work's textual richness, and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultural issues, such as gender and sexuality, economics, friendship and hospitality, and visual culture. Arranged under rubrics which signal the complex interrelations of Henry James as a historical individual and of the works he authored with a web of social, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses, the contributions collected in this book make a convincing case for the ongoing productivity of James's oeuvre when interrogated from new critical angles and, therefore, for its enduring centrality to the concerns of literary and cultural studies.