Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Henry James
Course Number:
ENG00022H
Course Description:
This module is an opportunity to study in depth the fiction of one of the most exciting, compelling, innovative, and influential writers of the Anglo-American nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries. James’s work spans a rich transitional period in literary culture, connecting the (pre-)Victorian novel with the radical experimentalism of the Modernists. His earliest work owes a great deal to the steely delicacy and narrative ironies of Jane Austen; his latest writing engages with the questions of subjectivism and the paradoxes of authority which would later preoccupy Stein, Woolf and Joyce. James’s work addresses some of the biggest themes – passion, violence, loss and desire – but it’s less often noticed that he can be enormously funny and beguilingly shameless. This module aims, above all, to take seriously the pleasures of James’s texts; to read James in the light of his own apologia – ‘it is art that makes life, makes interest’.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00022H/latest
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