Delicate Pursuit | Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton | Jessi

ABSTRACT

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: The Age of Discretion

part |2 pages

Part One: Censorship/Self-Censorship in James and Wharton

chapter 1|22 pages

Early James: Victorian Values, French Influences

chapter 2|28 pages

"The Old Maid" in the 1920s Marketplace

part |2 pages

Part Two: French Classicism and the Discreet Imagination

chapter 3|20 pages

"Madame de Mauves" as James's La Princesse de Clèves

chapter 4|28 pages

Classical Heroines and Voyeurism in The Reef

part |2 pages

Part Three: Displacements of the Adultery Plot

chapter 5|30 pages

Handling the "Adulterine Element" in The Ambassadors

chapter 6|34 pages

The Age of Innocence and the European Novel of Adultery