A historical guide to Henry James /
Henry James - eminent novelist, amateur psychologist, inveterate bachelor - epitomizes, to many, the literary observer of social mores. His shrewd portraits of upper-class Anglo-American society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries distilled the differences between the Old World and the New Wor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Historical guides to American authors.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Henry James - eminent novelist, amateur psychologist, inveterate bachelor - epitomizes, to many, the literary observer of social mores. His shrewd portraits of upper-class Anglo-American society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries distilled the differences between the Old World and the New World, the rise of American entrepreneurship, and an aesthetically charged European sensibility. This book offers a primer to the author's fiction and the cultural milieu that influenced him. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190252755 0190252758 019512135X 9780195121353 0195121341 9780195121346 |