The Critical Reception of Henry James
Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571133199
Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571133199
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521155403
Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James' work ever assembled. This collection also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most important women reviewers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter ends with a checklist of additional reviews not presented here. The introduction surveys the major themes of the reviews and also shows how they personally influenced James and his work.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226392058
This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1986-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226391973
A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590174321
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James’s career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early “An International Episode” to the surreal and haunted corridors of “The Jolly Corner,” and including “Washington Square,” the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James’s finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James’s varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín’s fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most. Stories included: The Story of a Masterpiece A Most Extraordinary Case Crawford’s Consistency An International Episode The Impressions of a Cousin The Jolly Corner Washington Square Crapy Cornelia A Round of Visits
Author : Henry James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775417417
Young Londoners Kate and Merton are engaged, but have no money to marry on. When the wealthy but terminally ill American heiress Milly arrives in London, Kate schemes for a way to inherit her fortune. But when Kate achieves all she had hoped for, she finds that the money and the gentle, beautiful Milly have changed everything.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393953596
Critical essays and excerpts from James' notebooks, letters, and prefaces accompany nine stories that deal with ghosts, tyranny, the impact of Europe on Americans, and social manipulation
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822321477
Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.
Author : Michael Gorra
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0871403285
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) One of the Best Books of 2012: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Phoenix A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel—the scandalous story of the expatriate American heiress Isabel Archer—came to be written in the first place. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds new light on James’s family, the European literary circles—George Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev—in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create this most memorable of female protagonists. Appealing to readers of Menand’s The Metaphysical Club and McCullough’s The Greater Journey, Portrait of a Novel provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel of expatriate life ever written. It becomes a piercing detective story on its own.
Author : Annick Duperray
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars and translators, examines the ways in which Henry James was translated, published and reviewed in Europe.