Book chapter
22. From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors
11 Jan 2013
Abstract
More than thirty years ago, Leo Bersani challenged the conventional psychological approach to Henry James’s work. He argued that in James’s writing ”human relations implied what we call human feelings into existence” but that these feelings were ”the elaborations of surfaces— they have no depth” (Bersani A Future… 148). In my own 1991 book, The Daughter’s Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, I supported this view by applying a family systems-theory approach to Th...
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- Title
- 22. From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836216904721