Michael Anesko: 3 books
Monopolizing the Master
Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary...
Generous Mistakes
Incidents of Error in Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James's major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the books we know—or think we know....
Henry James and Queer Filiation
Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite...