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Representing the other in modern japanese literature : a critical approach
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ISBN: 9780415361859 9780415361866 0415361869 0415361850 9780203012345 0203012348 9781134233861 9781134233908 9781134233915 Year: 2007 Volume: 32 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge

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Henry James and the visual
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ISBN: 9780521880664 0521880661 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his readers' sense of vision to dramatize the ambiguity of American citizenship in scenes of tense encounter with Europeans. By reviving the eighteenth-century debates over beauty, sublimity, and the picturesque, James weaves into his narratives the national politics of emancipation, immigration, and Indian Removal. For James, visual experience is crucial to the American communal identity, a position that challenged prominent anthropologists as they defined concepts of race and culture in ways that continue to shape how we see the world today. To demonstrate the cultural stereotypes that James reworked, the book includes twenty illustrations from periodicals of the nineteenth century. This study reaches startling new conclusions not just about James, but about the way America defined itself through the arts in the nineteenth century.

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