Henry James's permanent adolescence

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"Henry James remained throughout his life focused on his boyhood and early manhood, and correspondingly on younger boys and men. John R. Bradley illustrates how it is in the context of such narcissism that James consistently dealt with male desire in his fiction. He also traces a more subtle but related trajectory in James's writing from a Classical to a Modernist gay discourse, which in turn is shown to have been paralleled by a shift in James's fiction from naturalistic beginnings to later stylistic evasion and obscurity."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Adolescence in literature,  American Psychological fiction,  Boys in literature,  Characters,  Desire in literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Homosexuality and literature,  Knowledge,  Men,  Narcissism in literature,  Psychology,  Sex in literature,  Young men in literature,  James, henry, 1843-1916,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Knowledge and learning

People: Henry James (1843-1916)

Places: United States