American memory in Henry James

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"American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. Through the prism of James' late works, the book explores the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common; and also with what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History,  History in literature,  In literature,  Knowledge,  Literature and history,  Memory in literature,  National characteristics, American, in literature,  United States,  National characteristics in literature,  United states, in literature,  Littérature et histoire,  Histoire dans la littérature,  Mémoire dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  American,  General,  Literature,  Knowledge and learning

People: Henry James (1843-1916)

Places: United States