ENGL 22301 - Henry James and the Sense of the Past

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University of Chicago

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This course examines time-travel as it is effected, as well as staged, by the fiction of Henry James, culminating in a study of his final, unfinished novel. Rather than merely attempting to historicize his oeuvre, we focus on the peculiar conception of history the author's notion of a "visitable past" affords. We study the reciprocal interference between sensory and historical experience in James 's prose in tandem with the commodification of past forms it dramatizes contemporaneously. Relevant criticism and primary readings in realism, aestheticism, and historiography supplement our readings of the bodies and prefaces of selected tales, essays, travel writings, and novels (e. g., The American, The Princess Casamassima, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sense of the Past). J. Scappettone. Sprin

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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