Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens.

Julián Jiménez Heffernan (Ph.D. Bologna, Italy) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. He has authored three books on Shakespeare, co-edited the collection Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2013), and published many essays on Renaissance philosophy, deconstruction, and modern fiction--from Samuel Richardson to Nadine Gordimer. He is currently working on a book on Karl Marx and William Thackeray.