Henry James
A Certain Illusion
by Denis Flannery
245 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780754602484
About
A concept of illusion was fundamental to the theory and practice of literary representation in Henry James' work. This book offers readings of James' fictional and critical texts that are informed by the certainty of illusion, and links James' mode of illusion with a number of concerns that have marked novel criticism in both the recent and not-so-recent past: gender, publicity, realism, aesthetics and passion, cults of authorial personality, the narrative construction of the future, and absorption.
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