The sweetest impression of life : the James family and Italy / edited by James W. Tuttleton and Agostino Lombardo
1990, First Edition. New York ; Rome : New York University Press ; Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409139
ISBN: 0814781837
Physical description; xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Italian journeys of Henry James / Leon Edel -- Dipped in the sacred stream: the James family in Italy / James W. Tuttleton -- Italy in Henry James's international theme / Sergio Perosa -- The uses of Italy in Roderick Hudson and The Princess Casamassima / Josephine Gattuso Hendin -- Henry James's American girls in darkest Rome: the abuse and disabuse of innocence / Daniel Mark Fogel -- Rococo Venice, Pietro Longhi, and Henry James / Adeline R. Tintner -- The force of revelation: receptive vision in Henry James's early Italian travel essays / Bonney MacDonald -- Alice James and Italy / Maria Antonietta Saracino -- The influence of William James's pragmatism in Italy / Gerald E. Myers -- Listening to the master: William James and the making of the new in Italian culture / Claudio Gorlier -- Henry James and the literature of Italy / Lyall H. Powers -- William Whetmore Story and his friends: the enclosing fact of Rome / Denis Donoghue -- Italy and the artist in Henry James / Agostino Lombardo. Subjects; James family. James, Henry 1843-1916 Knowledge Italy. James, William 1842-1910 Influence. James, Henry 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation. James, Henry 1843-1916 Homes and haunts. James, Henry 1843-1916. James, William 1842-1910. Italy in literature. English fiction. United States. Italy.
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