The Bostonians, satirical novel by Henry James, published serially in Century Illustrated Magazine in 1885–86 and in book form in three volumes in 1886. It was one of the earliest American novels to deal—even obliquely—with lesbianism. Olive Chancello
Henry James is granted the title of "master of psychological realism",because of his minute style in portraying the characters and his attentions on the characters' psychological and spiritual aspects in depicting the events. This paper is trying to, from the aspect of Henry James's composition...
a tremor which is deeply characteristic of Jamesian narration at its best, whether early or late, and gives the act of keen reading diat James enforces a very particular edge of excitement" (28). However, this paragraph (as well as other elements of the novel) may be instead a parody ...
Murtaugh In his Preface to the New York Edition of Roderick Hudson , Henry James described the original composition of the novel in terms of an initiation—as the completion of an artistic apprenticeship: Roderick Hudson was my first attempt at a novel, a long fiction with a "complicated" ...
After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction--in which American innocence is transformed ...
In placing his incurable heroine Milly Theale in front of the Bronzino in the novel, James intimates how the characteristic deformations of mannerist portraiture can help us accept the vagaries of both interpersonal and embodied existence鈥攐ur vulnerability to disease, ...
This etext was scanned by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing was by David, Marc Davis and Andy McLauchlan. SOME SHORT STORIES BY HENRY JAMES Contents: Brooksmith The Real Thing The Story of It Flick
7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ___ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. William Dean Howells 8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?
Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and ment...
This kind of subjective bookreviews of young Henry James seemed to be welcomed by the American magazines. As for his tales (my main subject) published from 1864 to 1875, I divide them into three groups according to the years of publication, discuss the characteristic of each group, and show...