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This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is equally on his life and on his fictions. This is the first book to investigate his father's bizarre lifelong struggle with free love and feminism, a struggle that played a major role in shaping James. The book also shows how seriously he distorted the truth about the cousin, Minnie Temple, whose self-assertive image inspired him; and how indebted he was to certain American women writers whom he attacked in reviews but whose plots and heroines he appropriated in his own fiction.

Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- James, Henry --- Feminism and literature --- Feminisme en literatuur --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Féminisme et littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex role in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- James, Henry, --- Political and social views --- Characters --- Women --- Pensée politique et sociale --- Femmes --- Féminisme et littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Pensée politique et sociale --- Political and social views. --- Women. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Sex role in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- ‏جميس، هينري،‏ --- جيمز، هنرى --- Criticism and interpretation.