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This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Henry James and the Culture of Publicity
• Author: Richard Salmon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• EAN: 9780521100335
• ISBN: 052110033X
• ID: 02021374
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 230 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2009

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