The Birthplace
Editorial HESPERUS PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag HESPERUS PRESS
- ISBN13 9781843912071
- ISBN10 1843912074
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 122
- Sammlung Hesperus Classics #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2012
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden mit Klappen
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English LiteraturThe Birthplace
Editorial HESPERUS PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Blackport-on-Dwindle - 'all granite, fog and female fiction' - has been the Gedges' dull hometown for some years. They leap, therefore, at the invitation to become the live-in guardians of the birthplace of the nation's literary hero. Anticipating romance and inspiration - all that has been lacking in their lives to date - they find, instead, that the house casts an altogether more sinister spell. In The Birthplace, James displays his eye for character and a wry appreciation of pretension and the absurd. As is famously recorded, James doubted Shakespeare's authorship of the plays ascribed to him and The Birthplace illustrates his cynical attitude towards the cult of the Bard and the visitor industry that it had engendered. The Birthplace is published here alongside The Private Life, another little-known work in which James again considers the relevance of the artist's persona - a theme with continued relevance in literature and the arts.