Literature as Conduct

Speech Acts in Henry James

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by J. Hillis Miller

Fordham University Press

Due/Published September 2005, 376 pages, paper

ISBN 0823225380

The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction.