The Reception of Henry James in Europe
Henry James, the American-born writer who chose to live in Europe, settled in London and Rye, becoming a British subject in 1915. He occupies a major position as a dedicated artist and cultural historian who combined the strengths of American, English and French nineteenth-century literary traditions with the aesthetic innovations that paved the way for modern and postmodern fiction. The rare subtlety and intensity of his writings can be fully appreciated only through the responses of perceptive readers beyond the English-speaking world. This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which James was translated, published and reviewed on the Continent of Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, but also in most of the languages of Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Some specific contributions are devoted to the strikingly original cinematic and operatic adaptations of Henry James's works.

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The Reception of Henry James in Europe
Henry James, the American-born writer who chose to live in Europe, settled in London and Rye, becoming a British subject in 1915. He occupies a major position as a dedicated artist and cultural historian who combined the strengths of American, English and French nineteenth-century literary traditions with the aesthetic innovations that paved the way for modern and postmodern fiction. The rare subtlety and intensity of his writings can be fully appreciated only through the responses of perceptive readers beyond the English-speaking world. This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which James was translated, published and reviewed on the Continent of Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, but also in most of the languages of Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Some specific contributions are devoted to the strikingly original cinematic and operatic adaptations of Henry James's works.

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The Reception of Henry James in Europe

The Reception of Henry James in Europe

by Annick Duperray (Editor)
The Reception of Henry James in Europe

The Reception of Henry James in Europe

by Annick Duperray (Editor)

Overview

Henry James, the American-born writer who chose to live in Europe, settled in London and Rye, becoming a British subject in 1915. He occupies a major position as a dedicated artist and cultural historian who combined the strengths of American, English and French nineteenth-century literary traditions with the aesthetic innovations that paved the way for modern and postmodern fiction. The rare subtlety and intensity of his writings can be fully appreciated only through the responses of perceptive readers beyond the English-speaking world. This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which James was translated, published and reviewed on the Continent of Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, but also in most of the languages of Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Some specific contributions are devoted to the strikingly original cinematic and operatic adaptations of Henry James's works.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472535931
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/27/2014
Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Pages: 480
Product dimensions: 9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Annick Duperray is Emerita Professor of American Literature at Aix-Marseille Université, and was Overseas Project Director for the British Academy Network Group on Reception Studies from 2004 to 2009. She holds a doctorate on English fin-de-siècle literature and a Doctorat d'Etat on Henry James. Her major publications include an analytical study of Henry James's tales, Echec et écriture: essai sur les nouvelles d'Henry James (1993), and several contributions, notably to Henry James in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Tracing Henry James (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). She was volume editor for the first and third volume of the critical edition of Henry James's Nouvelles complètes (Editions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2003/2011).

Elinor Shaffer, FBA, is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Director of the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. The author of The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880(Cambridge University Press), and Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer, and Art Critic (Reaktion), and many articles on Coleridge's aesthetics and other topics in European Romantic studies, she was a founder member of the British Comparative Literature Association and editor of the annual journal Comparative Criticism(Cambridge), and has taught in universities in Britain, the United States, and Europe.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Timeline: European Reception of Henry James
1. The French Reception of Henry James - J. Bessière & Miceala Symington
2. Eager Disciple and Reluctant Master: Paul Bourget's role in the reception of Henry James in France - Angus Wrenn
3. Italian Translations of Henry James - Sergio Perosa
4. 'Appearing and Disappearing in Public': James Studies in Italy, from Local to Global - Donatella Izzo
5. Henry James at the Museum: Italy 2000 - Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
6. The Reception of Henry James in Germany from the beginning to 1970 - Renate Brosch
7. Henry James's Reception in Bulgaria -Madeleine Danova
8. Slavic Encounters: The Reception of Henry James in the Czech and Slovak Lands - Erick S. Roraback
9. Factions of James's Interpreters in Poland: Translators, Reviewers and Scholars - Miroslawa Buchholtz
10. Henry James in Hungary - Mihály Szegedy-Maszák
11. An Elitist Experience: The Reception of Henry James in Romania - Irina Burlui-Wahrig
12. Brief Overview of Translations from Henry James into Romanian - Andreea Ionescu
13. Henry James in Russia - Tamara Selitrina
14. The Reception and Reputation of Henry James in Portugal - George Monteiro
15. 'The Lesson of the Master': The Reception of Henry James in Spain - Antonia Alvarez Calleja
16. 'Catholicizing' the Governess: Henry James in Spanish Film - Dennis Tredy
17. 'The Art of the Novel': Henry James's Reception in Greece - Eleftehria Arapoglou
18. The Scholars and Translators: The Reception of Henry James in Nordic Countries, with Special Reference to Finland - Hannu Riikonen
19. James, European and American Opera - Jeremy Tambling
20. The Presence of Henry James in European Cinema - Philip Horne Bibliography
Index

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