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Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2001-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780140435160 |
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James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James's eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne's own words, James' 'real and best biography'.
Author | : Leon Edel |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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"Henry James: A Life" is a revised and updated condensation of the classic biography. "Henry James: A Life" gains narrative power in its directedness, in its concise handling of James's complex development as a writer, in a sharpened sense of how his youthful enthusiasms and setbacks were transformed and yoked to his art. And this edition, which represents the first complete one-volume biography of James ever published, includes significant new material about his life. Revised and skillfully abridged in these pages, Edel's masterpiece will find its way to a whole new generation of readers. -- From publisher's description.
Author | : Kenneth Graham |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1995-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349238910 |
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This comprehensive account of the writing life of Henry James aims at providing a critical overview of all his important writings, firmly set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England, and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time. By tracing the complex development of his career under such headings as 'American and Romantic', 'Victorian and Realist', 'Crisis and Experiment' and 'Master and Modernist', it gives a dynamic portrait, both factual and interpretative, of one of the greatest and most prolific novelists in the language, whose many-sided career began in the time of Thackeray and Dickens, and ended by ushering in the writings of Joyce and Woolf.
Author | : Eric L. Haralson |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438117272 |
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Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.
Author | : Robert B. Pippin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521655477 |
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This book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174321 |
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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 | : Peter Brooks |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780691129549 |
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Author | : Michael Gorra |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0871403285 |
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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 | : Lyndall Gordon |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780099386117 |
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Lyndall Gordon presents a new and intimate kind of biography, telling the story of Henry James' life through the lens of two strange and elusive relationships which crucially influenced his art.
Author | : Jonathan Freedman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825364 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.