Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

Allan Hepburn · Beverly Haviland

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Introduction: at home: the reception of Henry James Part I. Henry James's Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present 2. The sense of a happy ending Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and Thorstein Veblen 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B. Du Bois 6. The return of the alien: Ethnic identity and Jakob A. Riis Part III. Patrimony and Matrimony: The Ivory Tower: 7. Heterosocial acts: the ambiguity of gender in the New World 8. Odd couples: Henry James Senior and Jacques Lacan 9. Irony makes love: Mrs Henry James and Washington, AC/DC.

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