Henry James' Travel : Fiction and Non-Fiction

__Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction__ offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Each chapter addresses a different selection of James’ fiction and non-fiction and offers a different approach towards the ideas that are still with us today: history reflected in art and architecture, the tourist gaze, museum culture, transnationalism, and the return home. As a whole, the book encompasses both early and late fiction and non-fiction by Henry James, giving the reader a sense of how his idea of travel evolved over several decades of his creative activity and shows how thin the line between fiction and non-fiction travel writing really is. "Henry James' Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James's idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Each chapter addresses a different selection of James's fiction and non-fiction and offers a different approach towards the ideas that are still with us today: history reflected in art and architecture, the tourist gaze, the museum culture, transnationalism and the return home. As a whole, the book encompasses both early and late fiction and non-fiction by Henry James, giving the reader a sense of how his idea of travel evolved over several decades of his creative activity and shows how thin the line between fiction and non-fiction travel writing really is" -- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures Notes on contributors List of abbreviations Introduction 1 The Ambassadors, The American Scene, and the Transnational Turn in American Studies 2 The sentimental tourist in rural France: Henry James’s pictures of history in A Little Tour in France (1884, 1900) 3 Self-inscription and autoethnography in Henry James’s travel writing 4 Roderick’s body, Winckelmann, and the screen of the touristic gaze 5 Travelling curios in a playful spirit: Henry James’s American museum 6 Back in “the terrible city”: Henry James and his characters in search of the past and a less polarized future Index