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Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West

The Co-Constitutive Nature of the Cosmopolite Spirit

Edited By: Choon-Hee Kim

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This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.

This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work and influenced his legacy through the themes of Jamesian cultural anxiety between and beyond spatio-temporal…

This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work and influenced his legacy through the themes of Jamesian cultural anxiety between and beyond spatio-temporal boundaries. As such, each chapter constructs a mode of reading to map and formulate one’s own cultural perspective in various contexts relying on their unique engagement with James’s and Jamesian creative acts of writing—aesthetics and science, the (auto-)biographical as social aspects, genre as literary-social context, the artistic and the economic, editorship and readership, and Asian perspectives on cultural influences and identities—to generate insights and establish new intercultural understandings. These are the traces of the contributors’ national, social, cultural consciousness that allow the definition of the Jamesian worldview as a particularly universal one in a global context.

Choon-Hee Kim obtained her PhD from Paris-Sorbonne University. Her research mainly focuses on Henry James studies and comparative literature, and she has held positions as a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics, Researcher at the Institute of Humanities of Seoul National University, and President of the Henry James Society of Korea. She is the author of Roman et théâtre chez Emile Zola et Henry James: étude comparée, and co-author of Greek and Roman Theatre II and The World of English Renaissance Drama I. She has also published articles on a wide range of subjects, including modern metamorphoses of Philoctetes, postmodernist strategies in Julian Barnes, and American artists and the Louvre.

Paul Armstrong, Donald Bellomy, Mirosława Buchholtz, Xianmei Dai, Philip Horne, Hitomi Nabae, Greg Zacharias, Choon-Hee Kim