TY - BOOK AU - Collister,Peter TI - Writing the self: Henry James and America SN - 9781851965519 AV - PS2124 .W758 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Pickering and Chatto KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Letting yourself go: James arrives in twentieth-century America --; Surrendering to the messages of New York --; Boston and Cambridge: initiations from the past --; Asking 'as few questions as possible' in Arcadian New England --; Hearing the voices of the South --; 'Unwritten history': the romance of James's Civil War stories --; 'Doing something' for the soldiers of the Civil War --; Life-writing for the man of letters --; 'An influence beyond my notation': the self-reflexive figures of 'The jolly corner' --; Opening doors into The sense of the past --; 'A round of visits': effects achieved 'without the aid of the ladies' --; Waking up to 'some pretty big things' in The Ivory tower; 2; b N2 - This exciting and original monograph re-evaluates the final decade of Henry Jamess creative life. In 1904-5 the elderly expatriate made an extensive tour of North America. Through close literary analysis of his later writing, Peter Collister recovers Jamess American identity UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=213530&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -