Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of by Michael Anesko

By Michael Anesko

Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he used to be adamant that his legacy be dependent completely on his guides and that his inner most lifestyles and writings stay perpetually deepest. regardless of this, presently after his loss of life in 1916 an extreme fight begun between his family members and his literary disciples to regulate his posthumous acceptance, a fight that was once persevered via later generations of critics and biographers. Monopolizing the Master provides a blow-by-blow account of this clash, which aroused extreme emotions of jealousy, suspicion, and proprietorship between those that claimed to be the simply custodians of James's literary legacy. With an remarkable quantity of latest facts now on hand, Michael Anesko unearths the impressive social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired—and influenced—the planned development of the Legend of the Master.

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