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"The Reality of the Unseen": Shared Fictions and Religious Experience in the Ghost Stories of Henry James
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IN A GHOST STORY FROM Henry James's early period, "The Ghostly Rental," printed in Scribner's Monthly in 1876 and never reprinted during James's lifetime, Captain Diamond, a man haunted by the ghost of his daughter, lectures the narrator, a young student at the Harvard Divinity School: "You have read about the immortality of the soul; you have seen Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Hopkins chopping logic over it, and deciding, by chapter and verse, that it is true. But I have seen it with these eyes; ...
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"The Reality of the Unseen": Shared Fictions and Religious Experience in the Ghost Stories of Henry James
The Arizona Quarterly
; IN A GHOST STORY FROM Henry James's early period, "The Ghostly Rental," printed in Scribner's Monthly in 1876 and never reprinted during James's lifetime, Captain Diamond, a man haunted by the ghost of his daughter, lectures the narrator, a young student at the Harvard Divinity School: "You have
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Kress, Jill M. The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton.(Book Review)
Studies in the Novel
; ... self, and Kress argues that the novel lures us along with a sense that a privately cultivated interior can be a reality. She maps Wharton's persistent usage of the word real, one that bears an authenticity, she claims, even in the novelist's most ironic moments ...
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A new biography of William James reveals a man who never really succeeded in resolving the central tensions of his life and times.(Review)
World and I
; Lloyd Eby is assistant senior editor of the Currents in Modern Thought section of The World & I. Book Info:GENUINE REALITY A Life of William James Linda Simon Publisher:New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998 467 pp., $35.00 The life and work of William James were poised in the tension
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William James's letters win award from MLA
Humanities
; WILLIAM JAMES'S LETTERS WIN AWARD FROM MLA The Correspondence of William James, Volume 6, was recently awarded the Modern Language Association of America's Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. William James (1842-1910), an American psychologist and philosopher, maintained
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Henry James on the great war: a letter recovered from the Mercure de France.
ANQ
; The son of the suffragist and reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Stanton (1851-1925) was the author of Literary Men as Diplomats (1898) and Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur (1910). In collaboration with members of the faculty of Cornell University, he edited A Manual of American Literature
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`Confessions' explores dark sojourn of William James.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: Roger Gathman The Newsboy's Lodging-House or The Confessions of William James by Jon Boorstin (Viking $24.95). It is said Henry James wrote novels like a philosopher, while his brother, William James, wrote philosophy like a novelist. Putting that adage into practice, Los Angeles novelist
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The big literary debate: Did they or didn't they? Bio claims Holmes, Henry James tryst
The Boston Globe
; ... in the Times Literary Supplement, the authoritative British journal. "The episode is the biographer's fantasy." "This bit of news is quite startling," says Leon Edel, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his five-volume biography of James, in the on-line journal Slate ...
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A Miraculous Enlargement of Experience - A profile of Henry James.
World and I
; Linda Simon is professor of English at Skidmore College. The author of Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (Harcourt Brace, 1998), Of Virtue Rare (1982), Thornton Wilder, His World (1979), and The Biography of Alice B. Toklas (1977), she edited William James Remembered (1996) and Gertrude
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Genius triumphs in saga of tormented William James
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Genuine Reality: A Life of William James. By Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace & Co. 467 pages. $35. In the introduction to her compelling new biography, "Genuine Reality: A Life of William James," Linda Simon emphasizes the contradictoriness in his attitudes toward religion, politics, money and family.
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BIOGRAPHY PAINTS A COMPELLING, CLEAR PICTURE OF WILLIAM JAMES.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; At the start of her compelling new biography, ``Genuine Reality: A Life of William James Linda Simon emphasizes how hard it is to get James into focus. In her epigraph, she quotes his famous remark ``the word `or' names a genuine reality In her introduction, she emphasizes his contradictoriness in
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