"This work is a brilliant new analysis of Jamesian sexuality and gender indentification."--Leland S. Person, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"In this well-written, informative study, Graham considers the issue of James's sexuality and its relation to his works within the "discursive frameworks" of his time. . . . The historical background treating medical, psychological, and moral views of love, sexuality, inversion, and neuresthenia is both fascinating and persuasive. Upper division undergraduates through faculty."--Choice
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Henry Jame's thwarted love; 2. William James on energy and entropy; 3. Dissipation and decoration in Roderick Hudson; 4. Degeneration and feminism in The Bostonians; 5. The politics of sexual dissidence in The Princess Casamassima; 6. Signing plenitude from the abyss in The Wings of the Dove; Notes; Index.
