Publication

2012 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

67,750 words, Guess

Page Count

271 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780195121353
  • ISBN-139780195121346
  • ISBN-10019512135X
  • ISBN-100195121341
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011033848
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number742511956
  • Better World Books9780195121353
  • Better World Books9780195121346
  • Open LibraryOL25025374M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.4
  • LCCPS2124 .H54 2012
  • LCCPS2124.H54 2012

Description

The New York City-born Henry James (1843-1916)-eminent novelist, amateur psychologist, inveterate bachelor-epitomizes, to many, the turn-of-the-century literary observer of social mores. His shrewd portraits of upper-class Anglo American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries distilled the differences between the Old World and the New, the rise of American entrepreneurship, and an aesthetically charged European sensibility. With fictional works like Washington Square, The Turn of the Screw, and The Portrait of a Lady, he displayed characters of great psychological depth, careful narrative detail, and distinctly vivid prose. With a brief biography, concise bibliographical essay, and six essays devoted to cultural context that defined him, A Historical Guide to Henry James offers an excellent primer to the author's fiction and the cultural milieu that influenced him.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Historical guides to American authors

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