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Book Title
Alice James : a Biography
Publication Name
Alice James
Title
Alice James
Author
Jean Strouse
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1590174534
EAN
9781590174531
ISBN
9781590174531
Edition
Main
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Release Date
01/11/2011
Release Year
2011
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.9in
Item Length
8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Women, General, Literary, Historical
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry's novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William's groundbreaking philosophical and psychological works have won these brothers a permanent place at the center of the nation's cultural firmament. Less well known is their enigmatic younger sister, Alice. But as Jean Strouse's generous, probing, and deeply sympathetic biography shows, Alice James was a fascinating and exceptional figure in her own right. Tormented throughout her short life by an array of nervous disorders, constrained by social convention and internal conflict from achieving the worldly success she desired, Alice was nonetheless a vivid, witty writer, an acute social observer, and as alert, inquiring, and engaging a person as her two famous brothers. "The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science," writes Strouse, "Alice simply lived."

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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590174534
ISBN-13
9781590174531
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102916816

Product Key Features

Book Title
Alice James : a Biography
Author
Jean Strouse
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, General, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
392 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ct275.J29s77 2011
Preface by
Toibin, Colm
Reviews
"From an isolated, eventless existence, Jean Strouse extracts something that did not exist for centuries: a woman's interior life." -Stacy Schiff, The Wall Street Journal "Engrossing, disquieting … Stunning, this book is haunting." -Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker "Jean Strouse's biography of this infantilized, untimely, brilliant, radical, wasted, proud, hysterical woman does her complexity justice. Without didacticism or polemic, Strouse squarely confronts and explores the broad issues of medical and intellectual history that Alice James' life raises so provocatively. Her book is searching and scholarly, fascinating and sound. It is as good a history of Judith Shakespeare as we'll ever have, and its complex lessons, for both men and women, transcend intellectual history and touch life at its moral core."- The Boston Globe "Miss Strouse, in acquainting us with the younger sister of William and Henry James, has, as it were - and she is witty about Henry's ''ineluctable 'as it weres' - written a Jamesian novel, subtle, evasive, embroidered, splendid.... Miss Strouse, who weaves instead of hammering home her delicate points is as expert in literary criticism as she is in recreating family life, medicine, psychology and education in 19th-century America. -John Leonard, The New York Times "This is an important book for those interested in women's history, in literary biography and for those who want to gain insight into the inner workings of human beings."- The Christian Science Monitor, A portrait of a brilliant mind placed under the greatest pressure, of a family that was expert at doing damage to its members, and of a social and intellectual world in which William and Henry James were able to thrive while their sister moved wilfully or bravely into the shadows.
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-012585
Dewey Decimal
818/.403
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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