The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence - Softcover

James, Alice

 
9781878972200: The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1878972200 ISBN 13: 9781878972200
Verlag: Exact Change, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Full of acerbic insights on English life and manners, Alice James' diaries have made her a feminist icon

Alice James (1848–92) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but―as was typical for a Victorian woman―never formally educated and thus deprived of any opportunity for a normal “career.” In her introductory biographical essay, Professor Ruth Bernard Yeazell of Yale University argues that Alice James instead made a career of her lifelong neurasthenic illness and anticipation of death. In this selection of letters, many written from the invalid’s bed, one finds Alice James witty and lyrical, but always deeply morbid: an artist of the deathbed, reminiscent of Kafka’s fictional Hunger Artist. Susan Sontag was inspired by this book to write her play, Alice in Bed, and critic Elaine Showalter has said that The Death and Letters of Alice James is “a book everyone interested in women’s history and literature will want.”

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Verlag
Exact Change
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1878972200
ISBN 13 
9781878972200
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
232
Herausgeber
Yeazell Ruth
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