Henry James and the art of impressions
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 83400
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198853510
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Although James criticized impressionism in French painting and fiction, he placed that impression centrally within his own aesthetic project. This 320pp. book confronts the anomaly that James represents in the wider history of the impression by charting detailed intellectual and cultural histories. It draws in painting, empiricist philosophy (Locke, Hume, J.S. Mill), psychology (William James, Mach, Brentano), British aestheticism and its roots in Kant and Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Pater, Wilde), and modern critical theories of performativity. It offers close readings across James's career from his early criticism, travel writing, Prefaces, and the late novels of his major phase.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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