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Edmund Wilson Campaigns for an “American Percy’s Reliques”
In the 1920s, Edmund Wilson, the American literary journalist, campaigned in the pages of Vanity Fair and The New Republic to convince American ballad professors to leave off their search for authentic folk songs and ballads and produce instead: “an American Percy’s Reliques.” This essay examines what Wilson hoped such a collection might accomplish, why American ballad and folk song scholars ignored his lobbying, and what were the consequences of their resistance.
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NADINE GORDIMER AND THE VICES OF BIOGRAPHY
Hedley Twidle's annotation assigning No Cold Kitchen as course work in 2010 As Hedley Twidle corrects my \"biographical demeanor\" (108) and maps my \"coordinates\" to \"capture\" my lopsided ethics (94), he expands the contemporary archive of \"redhibitory vice,\" the concept that Patricia J. Williams critiqued from the first page of The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Ronald Suresh Roberts Ronald Suresh Roberts writes from Liverpool, the former world capital of the slave trade, where he is a PhD candidate at Liverpool University's School of Law and Social Justice, funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship competition award, under the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership. Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University, 16 June 2017, http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/crassh-impact-a-black-feminist-conversation-patricia-williams-and-heidi-mir.
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A Production of Daisy Miller: A Comedy
This brief note describes the first known production of James's Daisy Miller: A Comedy by the Equity Library Theatre, New York, the week of October 17, 1956. This followed by a year an aborted summer production by the same director originally scheduled by the Robin Hood Theatre, Arden, DE.
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COMIC AND TRAGIC ASPECTS IN HENRY JAMES'S THE AMERICAN1
Lionel Trilling, for example, mentions that E. M. Forster's comic manner \"owes much to Fielding, Dickens, Meredith and James\".5 In his study, Henry James and the Comic Form6, Ronald Wallace considers that a description of James's novels as \"tragic\" and the insistence on a spirit of renunciation means to ignore what the author termed the \"many copious springs of our never-to-be-slighted 'fun' for the reader and critic susceptible of contagion. In facing evil with moral freedom and intellectual independence, the characters strive to lead lives which provide personal as well as social success. Marriage is sometimes seen as a social restriction and triumph is implied in the novel endings, as Constance Rourke observes: \"the sphere had altered from outer circumstances to the realm of the mind and spirit; and triumph was no longer blind and heedless, but achieved by difficult and even desperate effort. The comic scenes of the novel are replaced by melodramatic events toward the end of the novel, where the mysteries, the murder, the departure to the convent appear on the stage.
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Leon Edel, Biographer of Henry James, Dies at 89
Leon Edel, 89, the author of a celebrated five-volume biography of Henry James that won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and remains the classic work on the life of the expatriate American novelist and critic, died Sept. 5 at a hospital in Honolulu after a heart attack. Mr. Edel, who was stricken at his home in Honolulu, was a former freelance journalist and translator, a decorated Army veteran of World War II, a student of psychology and psychoanalysis, an English professor and a scholar and literary critic of prodigious proportions. He became interested in James while studying in Paris in the early 1930s. With the publication in 1973 of the final volume of \"The Henry James Biography\" -- the work appeared over a period of two decades -- he established himself not only as the preeminent authority on his subject but also as a provocative and original thinker on biography in general.
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Monopolizing the Master: Henry James, \Publishing Scoundrels,\ and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship
Leon Edel's virtual monopoly on Henry James studies in the twentieth century has long been recognized but little explored. Through evidence gleaned from the biographer's personal archive, this essay gives chapter and verse as to how he came to dominate a major field of modern scholarship.
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Henry James's Sacred Fount : The Theory, The Theorist, and The Lady
(The \"almost\" of it adds to the confusion.) He is an inventor and a wielder of \"theory\" (the word is constantly at his lips) and is himself, like his author (but he is not the author), at once terrifically rigorous and marvelously subtle in both his constructions and his applications, and at the same time is mostly mistaken as to the facts-which would be to make him comical by way of being a fool and an object of satire, adrift in his elegant constructions, but then, as also eventually becomes clear, accumulatively and retrospectively and by way of both further complication and enrichment, the narrator is also at once a tormented person and is a nasty person whose character is at once displaced into and is serviced by his theorizing. The continuously refined theory is to reveal the truth of that which strangely obsesses him, namely, who among his fellow weekend guests at the country estate Newmarch is engaged in dalliance with whom-and in the disproportion between the tremendous effort and the small object occurs the broader part of the joke of the novel.
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Leon Edel, 89, Prize-Winning Biographer of Henry James, Dies
Mr. Edel was a former Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. He received both the 1963 Pulitzer Prize and the 1963 National Book Award for the second and third volumes of his seminal five-volume biography of the American novelist and critic. Mr. Edel's analysis of James has also resisted the ravages of time. Another critic, Renee Tursi, wrote last year that, generally speaking, ''Subsequent scholars have lent an updated eye to the novelist's unspoken homoeroticism but have followed Mr. Edel's Freudian explanation of a life supposedly more observed than lived.'' In the James biography, both James's life and works are dealt with masterfully by Mr. Edel (pronounced ay-DELL). As another noted biographer, R. W. B. Lewis, wrote in 1993, Mr. Edel was one of those ''biographers who endlessly intermesh the Work with the Life.'' The first volume, ''The Untried Years,'' appeared in 1953. Following over the next 20 years were ''The Conquest of London,'' ''The Middle Years,'' ''The Treacherous Years'' and ''The Master.'' The five volumes became known as ''The Henry James Biography.'' A two-volume revised edition was published as ''The Life of Henry James'' in 1977, and a one-volume revised and abridged edition, published as ''Henry James: A Life,'' won a National Book Critics Circle award for 1985.
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