Inscribed at the threshold of several cultures, Jamess literary work continues to be provocative today, as much by the suggestion of a hidden design, concealed from the readers view, as by the successive interpretations to which it has given rise. This study explores the "gems" that spangle the "carpet" of his prose.
| Introduction Towards Westminster Abbey: the Twin's Mythical Eternity |
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Chapter I Deciphering Europe: Landscape and the Art of Fiction |
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Chapter II Walter Pater, Henry James and Freud Probing Leonardo da Vinci's Family Novel |
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Chapter III Passionate Attraction: From Faraday, Swedenborg to Theophile Gautier, Charles Fourier and Wilde |
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Chapter IV Henry James and Sacher-Masoch: From the Love of Statues to the Fear of Ghosts |
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Chapter V Investigating the Victorian Nursery: James's Self-Analysis of the "Frightened Cry-Baby" in the Hands of Dr Skinner... |
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Chapter VI The Solar Myth: Twin Structures: Impulses of Death and Civilization |
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Chapter VII Anamorphosis and the Secret of Mr Tishbein Seen "from the Jolly Corner" |
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Chapter VIII Towards the Grotesque and Beyond: Caricature from Francis Grose to Dracula |
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Chapter IX A Love of James? |
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| Conclusion "The Heir of all the Ages" in the Pleiades of the Cultural West: a Symbolic Revolution |
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Jean Perrot is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Paris University. His main publications include Mythe et littérature sous le signe des jumeaux (Paris, 1976), Art baroque, art denfance (Nancy, 1991), Le Secret de Pinocchio. Carlo Collodi et George Sand (Paris, 2001), Du jeu, des enfants et des livres ą lheure de la mondialisation (Paris, 2011). He has edited Les Métamorphoses du conte for P.I.E Peter Lang in 2004.
