Partial Portraits of James the Traveller

The aim of the article is to offer a less solemn and less frontal perspective on the Jamesian opus by way of his travel writing, a practice inevitably seasonal and occasional: the jottings of a tourist or traveller. There emerges a renewed sense of the Jamesian relation to the world, to time and to...

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Main Author: Cornelius Crowley
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Language:English
Published: Université Clermont Auvergne 2020-01-01
Series:Viatica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/1138
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